In recent years, large-scale mergers and acquisitions have occurred in the technology and semiconductor industries, not billions of or $ tens of billions of. Just as Broadcom was ready to swallow Qualcomm at $130 billion (about 862 billion yuan), Mavell announced it would buy a rival Cavium (Kay) at a price of about $6 billion (about 40 billion yuan).
Mavell (note distinction is not Marvel Mavel) is an American chip manufacturer, specializing in the manufacture of storage, communications and consumer electronics chips, by Dr. Zhou Xiwen, wife Dai, brother Zhou Xiuwu three co-founded in 1995, headquartered in Santa Clara, California, USA, TOP20 ranks among the global semiconductor companies.
Our daily use of many hdd/ssd/u disk storage products, all with his home control, 88ss1074 shipments have more than 50 million.
Cavium formerly known as the Network, is a United States factory-based semiconductor company, founded in 2001, headquartered in San Jose, California, the production of Arm/mips architecture CPU/SOC, providing network, AV and security functions, its processors and development boards are commonly used in routers, network switches, Network attached storage and other products.
In short, the two are around you a lot of products inseparable, but many people are very little attention.
In this transaction, Marvell will acquire Cavium all circulating stocks, $40 per share in cash plus 2.1757 shares Marvell common stock, equivalent to $80 per share, with a total transaction price of $6 billion.
After two mergers, Marvell's hard disk storage controllers, network solutions, high-performance wireless products and cavium multi-core processing, network communications, storage interconnection, security solutions will be integrated to become the leader of infrastructure solutions, annual revenue of up to 3.4 billion U.S. dollars.
After the announcement, two companies in front of each share of the stock rose 3.5%, 9.3%, the current market value of 10 billion U.S. dollars, 5.2 billion dollars respectively.
It is worth mentioning that Cavium just spent $1.3 billion last year on the acquisition of QLogic, a high-performance server and storage network equipment service provider.
The shot is 40 billion. Marvell formally announces acquisition of Cavium