Today Cavium announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire all of the outstanding QLogic common stock for approximately $1.36 billion in equity value. The deal has been unanimously approved by the boards of directors of both companies.
Today’s acquisition of QLogic is highly complementary and strategic to Cavium and it creates a diversified pure-play infrastructure semiconductor leader,” stated Syed Ali, President and Chief Executive Officer of Cavium. “QLogic’s industry leading products extend our market position in data center, cloud and storage markets, and further diversifies our revenue and customer base. In addition to the compelling strategic benefits, the manufacturing, sales and operating synergies will create significant value for our shareholders.”
According to Cavium, the acquisition provides an opportunity to drive significant growth at scale in data center and storage markets. “QLogic’s leading portfolio of advanced connectivity and storage solutions is highly complementary to Cavium’s extensive portfolio of networking, compute, and security solutions. The combination enables Cavium to offer a complete end-to-end offering to customers in Enterprise, Cloud, Data Center, Storage, Telco and Networking markets. QLogic adds an incremental $2+ billion market opportunity for Cavium.”
“QLogic with Cavium is a winning combination for customers and employees and is financially compelling for QLogic shareholders,” said Christine King, Executive Chairman of QLogic. “The scale of operations of a nearly $1 billion revenue business will allow the combined company to deliver better solutions for customers and create more career opportunities for employees. Shareholders will benefit from both the immediate premium, as well as the opportunity to participate in the long-term value creation from the combined company’s strong growth prospects.”
As you may recall, QLogic sold its Truescale InfiniBand business to Intel back in 2012. That technology evolved into the Intel Omni-Path fabric.
