M&A Deal Summary

NVIDIA Acquires Mellanox

On March 11, 2019, NVIDIA acquired semiconductors company Mellanox for 6.9B USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is NVIDIA’s 4th transaction in the Semiconductors sector.
  • This is NVIDIA’s largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is NVIDIA’s 8th transaction in the United States.
  • This is NVIDIA’s 6th transaction in California.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2019-03-11
Target Mellanox
Sector Semiconductors
Buyer(s) NVIDIA
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 6.9B USD
Advisor(s) Credit Suisse Investment Banking
J.P. Morgan Securities (Financial)
Herzog Fox & Neeman
Latham & Watkins (Legal)

Target

Mellanox

Santa Clara, California, United States
Mellanox is a fabless semiconductor company that designs, manufactures, and sells high-performance interconnect products and solutions. Mellanox was formed in 1999 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

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Buyer

NVIDIA

Santa Clara, California, United States
Category Company
Founded 1993
Sector Semiconductors
Employees22,473
Revenue 61.0B USD (2024)
DESCRIPTION
NVIDIA's corporate headquarters in Santa Clara, California.
NVIDIA's corporate headquarters in Santa Clara, California.

NVIDIA develops and supplies graphical chips and processors to original equipment manufacturers. NVIDIA-branded products and services are used within the gaming, enterprise, computing, and automotive markets. NVIDIA was formed in 1993 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 12 of 16
Sector (Semiconductors) 4 of 4
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 11 of 15
State (California) 6 of 9
Country (United States) 8 of 11
Year (2019) 1 of 1
Size (of disclosed) 1 of 6
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2013-07-29 The Portland Group

Lake Oswego, Oregon, United States

The Portland Group (a.k.a. PGI) is a premier supplier of software compilers and tools for parallel computing, known as PGI® products. The Portland Group offers optimizing parallel FORTRAN 2003, C99 and C++ compilers and tools for workstations, servers and clusters running Linux, MacOS or Windows operating systems based on the microprocessors

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2020-05-04 Cumulus Networks

Mountain View, California, United States

Cumulus Networks provides networking software to design, run, and operate modern networking environments that are simple, open, agile, resilient, and scalable. Cumulus Linux is the only open networking software that allows you to affordably build and efficiently operate your network like the world’s largest data center and campus operators, unlocking vertical network stacks. Combined with Cumulus NetQ, a highly scalable, network operations tool set, organizations can accelerate the deployment of open networks and reduce the mean-time to resolution.

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