M&A Deal Summary

Onto Innovation Acquires Nanometrics

On June 24, 2019, Onto Innovation acquired semiconductors company Nanometrics

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Onto Innovation’s 1st transaction in the Semiconductors sector.
  • This is Onto Innovation’s 7th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Onto Innovation’s 2nd transaction in California.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2019-06-24
Target Nanometrics
Sector Semiconductors
Buyer(s) Onto Innovation
Deal Type Merger
Advisor(s) Barclays Investment Bank (Financial)
Cooley (Legal)

Target

Nanometrics

Milpitas, California, United States
Nanometrics, Inc. is a provider of advanced, high-performance process control metrology and inspection systems used primarily in the fabrication of semiconductors and other solid-state devices, such as data storage components and discretes including high-brightness LEDs and power management components. Nanometrics was founded in 1975 and is based in Milpitas, California.

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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 8 of 9
Sector (Semiconductors) 1 of 1
Type (Merger) 2 of 2
State (California) 2 of 2
Country (United States) 7 of 8
Year (2019) 1 of 1
PREVIOUS 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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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2021-01-07 Inspectrology

Sudbury, Massachusetts, United States

Inspectrology LLC is a distributor of overlay metrology for controlling lithography and etch processes in the compound semiconductor market. with offices in North America, Europe, and Asia, and a large international installed base, Inspectrology has the global reach and expertise to support installations worldwide. Inspectrology was founded in 2008 and is based in Sudbury, Massachusetts.

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