M&A Deal Summary

SK Hynix Acquires Link_A_Media Devices

On June 19, 2012, SK Hynix acquired semiconductors company Link_A_Media Devices

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is SK Hynix’s 3rd transaction in the Semiconductors sector.
  • This is SK Hynix’s 1st transaction in the United States.
  • This is SK Hynix’s 1st transaction in California.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2012-06-19
Target Link_A_Media Devices
Sector Semiconductors
Buyer(s) SK Hynix
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

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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Buyer

SK Hynix

Icheon, South Korea
Category Company
Founded 1949
Sector Semiconductors
Employees28,894
Revenue 27.64T KRW (2023)
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 3 of 5
Sector (Semiconductors) 3 of 4
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 2 of 2
State (California) 1 of 2
Country (United States) 1 of 2
Year (2012) 2 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-06-12 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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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2017-09-28 Kioxia

Tokyo, Japan

Kioxia is a provider of non-volatile memory solutions. The products can be found embedded in smartphones, MP3 players, satellite navigation systems, digital still cameras and digital video recorders. KIOXIA also produces a wide range of digital media storage devices such as SDHCTM, SDXCTM, microSDTM, and FlashAirTM wireless memory cards and USB flash drives to meet the growing storage needs of electronic devices. Kioxia was founded in 2017 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

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