M&A Deal Summary

Xilinx Acquires RocketChips

On October 3, 2000, Xilinx acquired semiconductors company RocketChips

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Xilinx’s 1st transaction in the Semiconductors sector.
  • This is Xilinx’s 1st transaction in the United States.
  • This is Xilinx’s 1st transaction in Minnesota.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2000-10-03
Target RocketChips
Sector Semiconductors
Buyer(s) Xilinx
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

RocketChips

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
RocketChips, Inc. was founded in January, 1997.RocketChips, Inc, a privately-held fabless semiconductor company. RocketChips is a leading developer of ultra-high-speed CMOS mixed-signal transceivers serving the networking, wireless and wired telecommunications, and enterprise storage markets.

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Buyer

Xilinx

San Jose, California, United States
Category Company
Founded 1984
Sector Semiconductors
Employees4,890
Revenue 3.1B USD (2020)
DESCRIPTION
Entrance to Xilinx's corporate headquarters in San Jose, California.
Entrance to Xilinx's corporate headquarters in San Jose, California.

Xilinx designs and develops programmable devices and associated technologies. The Company's products include integrated circuits (ICs) in the form of programmable logic devices (PLDs), including programmable System on Chips (SoCs) and three-dimensional ICs, or 3D ICs; software design tools to program the PLDs; targeted reference designs; and printed circuit boards. In addition to its programmable platforms, Xilinx provides design services, customer training, field engineering and technical support. Xilinx was established in 1984 and is based in San Jose, California.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 14
Sector (Semiconductors) 1 of 6
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 1 of 13
State (Minnesota) 1 of 1
Country (United States) 1 of 9
Year (2000) 1 of 1
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2004-03-08 Triscend

Mountain View, California, United States

Triscend is a 41-person, privately-held, venture capital-funded company based in Mountain View, Calif. The company’s single-chip platform delivers a ready-to-customize system-on-chip (SoC) with the flexibility of a field-programmable device and the price point of a standard product.

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