M&A Deal Summary

TriQuint Semiconductor Acquires Sawtek

On May 16, 2001, TriQuint Semiconductor acquired semiconductors company Sawtek for 1.3B USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is TriQuint Semiconductor’s 1st transaction in the Semiconductors sector.
  • This is TriQuint Semiconductor’s largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is TriQuint Semiconductor’s 1st transaction in the United States.
  • This is TriQuint Semiconductor’s 1st transaction in Florida.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2001-05-16
Target Sawtek
Sector Semiconductors
Buyer(s) TriQuint Semiconductor
Deal Type Merger
Deal Value 1.3B USD

Target

Sawtek

Orlando, Florida, United States
Sawtek Inc. designs, develops, manufactures and markets a broad range of electronic signal processing components based on surface acoustic wave, or SAW, technology primarily for use in the wireless communications industry. Sawtek's primary products include SAW filters for mobile handsets and infrastructure, plus custom-designed, high performance bandpass filters, resonators, oscillators and SAW-based subsystems.

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Buyer

TriQuint Semiconductor

Hillsboro, Oregon, United States
Category Company
Founded 1985
Sector Semiconductors
Employees3,109
Revenue 893M USD (2013)
DESCRIPTION

TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc. is a provider of innovative RF solutions and foundry services for the world's top communications, defense and aerospace companies. TriQuint products help reduce the cost and increase the performance of connected mobile devices and the networks that deliver critical voice, data and video communications.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 6
Sector (Semiconductors) 1 of 4
Type (Merger) 1 of 1
State (Florida) 1 of 1
Country (United States) 1 of 6
Year (2001) 1 of 1
Size (of disclosed) 1 of 2
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2004-12-14 TFR Technologies

Bend, Oregon, United States

TFR Technologies, Inc. is a technology pioneer of thin film resonator filters for communication applications using bulk acoustic wave (BAW) or film bulk acoustic resonator (FBAR) technology.

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