M&A Deal Summary

Rambus Acquires Inphi - Memory Interconnect Business

On June 30, 2016, Rambus acquired semiconductors company Inphi - Memory Interconnect Business from Inphi for 90M USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Rambus’ 3rd transaction in the Semiconductors sector.
  • This is Rambus’ 3rd largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is Rambus’ 5th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Rambus’ 4th transaction in California.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2016-06-30
Target Inphi - Memory Interconnect Business
Sector Semiconductors
Buyer(s) Rambus
Sellers(s) Inphi
Deal Type Divestiture
Deal Value 90M USD

Target

Inphi - Memory Interconnect Business

Santa Clara, California, United States
Inphi Corp. - Memory Interconnect Business includes product inventory, customer contracts, supply chain agreements and intellectual property.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Rambus

San Jose, California, United States

Category Company
Founded 1990
Sector Semiconductors
Employees623
Revenue 461M USD (2023)
DESCRIPTION
Rambus' corporate headquarters in Sunnyvale, California.
Rambus' corporate headquarters in Sunnyvale, California.

Rambus is a provider of chip and system companies with interface solutions that deliver higher performance for a broad range of consumer, computing and communications applications. The Company was formed in 1990 and is based in Sunnyvale, California. Rambus was founded in 1990 and is based in San Jose, California.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 5 of 11
Sector (Semiconductors) 3 of 8
Type (Divestiture) 2 of 3
State (California) 4 of 5
Country (United States) 5 of 7
Year (2016) 3 of 3
Size (of disclosed) 3 of 5
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2016-06-06 Semtech - Snowbush IP

Camarillo, California, United States

Semtech Corp. - Snowbush IP is a provider of advanced analog and mixed-signal IP for ASSP, ASIC, and SoCs. The platform architectures developed for advanced SerDes products, along with high-speed IP cores, offer cost savings opportunities and can expand the Rambus product offerings by integrating industry-leading IP cores, patents and other assets.

Buy $33M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2019-01-16 Diablo Technologies

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Diablo Technologies, Inc. was a pioneer in the development of NVDIMM technologies for high-speed, low-power, and low-latency bridging and switching products targeted at the server and storage markets. Having developed memory buffer and software solutions leveraging an all-Flash memory sub-system, Diablo Technologies enabled architecture to rewrite the rules of data center performance and economics.

Buy -

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Inphi

Santa Clara, California, United States

Category Company
Founded 2000
Sector Semiconductors
Employees685
Revenue 366M USD (2019)
DESCRIPTION

Inphi Corp. is a provider of high-speed, mixed signal semiconductor solutions for the communications, data center and computing markets. Inphi was founded in 2000 and is based in Santa Clara, California.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 1
Sector (Semiconductors) 1 of 1
Type (Divestiture) 1 of 1
State (California) 1 of 1
Country (United States) 1 of 1
Year (2016) 1 of 1
Size (of disclosed) 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2014-10-06 Cortina Systems

Sunnyvale, California, United States

Cortina Systems, Inc. is a provider of high-performance communications semiconductor solutions enabling next generation network connectivity and efficient bandwidth delivery from the core network to the home network.

Buy $131M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2016-11-01 ClariPhy Communications

Irvine, California, United States

ClariPhy Communications, Inc. is a provider of high speed systems-on-chip (SoCs) for multi-terabit data and telecom networking that establishes benchmarks for performance, bandwidth, power and reach while slashing deployment costs.

Buy $275M