M&A Deal Summary

SK Hynix Acquires Ideaflash

On June 12, 2012, SK Hynix acquired semiconductors company Ideaflash

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is SK Hynix’s 2nd transaction in the Semiconductors sector.
  • This is SK Hynix’s 1st transaction in Italy.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2012-06-12
Target Ideaflash
Sector Semiconductors
Buyer(s) SK Hynix
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Ideaflash

Milan, Italy
Ideaflash is an Italian NAND Flash developer. Ideaflash has mainly been consisted of 50 R&D experts with 12 or more years of average experiences who had formerly engaged in ST Micro and Spansion. They had had various successful experiences in the development of the various Flash memory devices.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

SK Hynix

Icheon, South Korea

Category Company
Founded 1949
Sector Semiconductors
Employees28,894
Revenue 66.19T KRW (2024)
DESCRIPTION
SK Hynix facility in San Jose, California.
SK Hynix facility in San Jose, California.

SK Hynix is a developer and manufacturer of memory and non-memory semiconductors. SK hynix was founded in 1949 and is based in Icheon, South Korea.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 2 of 5
Sector: Semiconductors M&A 2 of 4
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 1 of 2
Country: Italy M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2012 M&A 1 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
1999-05-20 LG Semicon Co.

South Korea

LG Semicon Co.,Ltd. engages in manufacture of semiconductors.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-06-19 Link_A_Media Devices

Santa Clara, California, United States

Link_A_Media Devices Corp.development of semiconductor SoC solutions for the data storage market. Its mixed signal processing and iterative data recovery technologies enable hard disk drive (HDD) and solid-state drive (SSD) OEMs to increase storage density and reduce manufacturing costs.

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