Electronic's Merges & Acquisitions - 2005

ELECTRONIC's MERGES & ACQUISITIONS - 2005 {23}

21-dec-05: TI to ACQUIRE CHIPCON

20-dec-05: DIODES SIGNES DEFINITIVE AGREEMENT for ANACHIP ACQUISITION

7-dec-05: SIMTEK to ACQUIRE the ASSETS of the NVSRAM PRODUCT LINE from ZMD for CASH and STOCK

2-nov-05: MICROSEMI to ACQUIRE ADVANCED POWER TECHNOLOGY

20-oct-05: MATRIX AGREES to ACQUISITION BY SANDISK

11-oct-05: MOSAID ACQUIRES VIRTUAL SILICON

7-oct-05: INTEL ANNOUNCES AGREEMENT to ACQUIRE DIGITAL BROADCAST TECHNOLOGY ASSETS, EXPERTISE from ZARLINK SEMICONDUCTOR

6-oct-05: BROADCOM to ACQUIRE ATHENA SEMICONDUCTORS, for MOBILE DIGITAL TV TUNER AND LOW-POWER WI-FI® TECHNOLOGIES

5-oct-05: OXFORD SEMICONDUCTOR ACQUIRES TRANSDIMENSION

30-sep-05: QUALCOMM to ACQUIRE CHIP DESIGN COMPANY SPIKE TECHNOLOGIES

6-sep-05: SIGMATEL ACQUIRES OASIS SEMICONDUCTOR

30-aug-05: RAMTRON ACQUIRES GOAL SEMICONDUCTOR for $7.6 MILLION in CASH and STOCK

26-aug-05: SIGMATEL COMPLETES ACQUISITION of PROTOCOM CORPORATION

15-aug-05: KKR and SILVER LAKE to ACQUIRE AGILENT’S SEMICONDUCTOR UNIT for $2.66 BILLION

20-jun-05: SEMTECH to ACQUIRE XEMICS

15-jun-05: IDT AND ICS ANNOUNCE PLAN TO MERGE

26-may-05: DIGI INTERNATIONAL ACQUIRES RABBIT SEMICONDUCTOR

9-may-05: ZORAN CORPORATION AGREES to ACQUIRE OREN SEMICONDUCTOR

26-apr-05: AVNET to ACQUIRE MEMEC

11-apr-05: GOLDEN GATE CAPITAL ACQUIRES TDK SEMICONDUCTOR

28-mar-05: MAGNACHIP SEMICONDUCTOR AGREES to ACQUIRE IC MEDIA

18-feb-05: OKI ACQUIRES TI JAPAN's DRIVER CHIP BUSINESS for LARGE TFT-LCDs

11-feb-05: SPECTRUM CONTROL ACQUIRES AMPLIFONIX

20-jan-05: AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES to ACQUIRE WAVICS