M&A Deal Summary

Onto Innovation Acquires Azores

On December 12, 2012, Onto Innovation acquired electronics company Azores

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Onto Innovation’s 1st transaction in the Electronics sector.
  • This is Onto Innovation’s 5th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Onto Innovation’s 1st transaction in Massachusetts.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2012-12-12
Target Azores
Sector Electronics
Buyer(s) Onto Innovation
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Azores

Wilmington, Massachusetts, United States
Azores Corp. is a provider in the design, development, manufacture and support of steppers for display products.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Onto Innovation

Wilmington, Massachusetts, United States
Category Company
Founded 1940
Sector Semiconductors
Employees1,497
Revenue 816M USD (2023)
DESCRIPTION

Onto Innovation is a designer, developer, manufacturer, and supporter of defect inspection, process control metrology, and data analysis systems and software used by the semiconductor device. Onto Innovation's portfolio edge technologies that include: Un-patterned wafer quality; 3D metrology spanning chip features from nanometer-scale transistors to large die interconnects; macro defect inspection of wafers and packages; metal interconnect composition; factory analytics; and lithography for advanced semiconductor packaging. Onto Innovation was founded in 1940 and is based in Wilmington, Massachusetts.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 6 of 9
Sector (Electronics) 1 of 1
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 4 of 6
State (Massachusetts) 1 of 2
Country (United States) 5 of 8
Year (2012) 2 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-06-21 NanoPhotonics AG

Mainz, Germany

NanoPhotonics AG provides ultra-compact defect inspection tools for wafer front side, back side and edge in R&D, automated in-line quality monitoring, and for integrated defect inspection applications in semiconductor manufacturing. Our innovative modular product architecture, advanced defect classification software and strong engineering capabilities allow us to react quickly to customer’s needs and to provide cost effective solutions.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2015-09-29 Stella Alliance

United States

Stella Alliance LLC is a semiconductor inspection technology intellectual property (IP).

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