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Micrel Acquires PhaseLink Co.

On March 15, 2012, Micrel acquired semiconductors company PhaseLink Co.

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Micrel’s 1st transaction in the Semiconductors sector.
  • This is Micrel’s 1st transaction in Taiwan.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2012-03-15
Target PhaseLink Co.
Sector Semiconductors
Buyer(s) Micrel
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

PhaseLink Co.

Taipei, Taiwan
PhaseLink Co., Ltd. is a provider in mixed signal technology for timing source and signal conditioning ICs, in the areas of communications, data storage, and consumer products, and an innovator of many first to market products such as Analog Frequency Multipliers, DualCore LCVCO Multiplier, Triangular Modulation SST and PicoPLL. PhaseLink is principally focused on providing high performance frequency timing (XO, VCXO, EMI Reduction, Programmable Clocks, fanout buffers, and ZDBs) clock IC solutions.

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Buyer

Micrel

San Jose, California, United States
Category Company
Founded 1978
Sector Semiconductors
Employees728
Revenue 237M USD (2013)
DESCRIPTION

Micrel, Inc. is a manufacturer of IC solutions for the worldwide high performance linear and power, LAN and timing and communications markets. Micrel's products include advanced mixed-signal, analog and power semiconductors; high performance communication, clock management, MEMS-based clock oscillators and crystal-less clock generators, Ethernet switch and physical layer transceiver ICs.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 2
Sector: Semiconductors M&A 1 of 1
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 1 of 2
Country: Taiwan M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2012 M&A 1 of 1
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2013-09-19 Discera

San Jose, California, United States

Discera, Inc. is a timing and clock oscillator company utilizing a proprietary MEMS (micro-electrical mechanical system) resonator enabling lower cost, enhanced ruggedness, smaller size and wider temperature range than historical quartz based solutions.

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