Add-on Acquisition • Semiconductors

SK Hynix Acquires Ideaflash

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

Acquisition Context

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

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M&A Deal Summary
Date	June 12, 2012
Target	Ideaflash
Sector	Semiconductors
Buyer(s)	SK Hynix
Deal Type	Add-on Acquisition

Target Company

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

SK Hynix

Icheon, South Korea

Category	Company
Founded	1949
Sector	Semiconductors
Employees	28,894
Revenue	66.19T KRW (2024)

DESCRIPTION

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 Context for Buyer	#
Overall	2 of 5
Sector: Semiconductors	2 of 4
Type: Add-on Acquisition	1 of 2
Country: Italy	1 of 1
Year: 2012	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.	Buy	-

DATE

TARGET

DEAL TYPE

VALUE

1999-05-20

LG Semicon Co.

South Korea

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

Buy

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.	Buy	-

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.

Buy

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