Intel Corporation, an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, is the world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturer by revenue. [1] [2] Since its inception, the company has acquired dozens of companies across the global technology industry, with seven multi-billion-dollar acquisitions as of January 2023 [update] . [3] [4] [5] Between 1999 and 2003, the company went on an acquisition spree of mostly telecommunications- and networking-related companies, spending $11 billion in the process. Many subsidiaries created in the process—by some estimations, nearly 40 [6] —folded or were spun-off at a loss before Intel consolidated the majority of them into the Intel Communication Group and Intel Wireless Communications and Computing Group in 2003. [7] In the turn of the 2010s, Intel went on another acquisition binge, spending $10 billion acquiring Infineon's Wireless Solutions business, security software developer McAfee, among others. [6]
Date | Company | Business | Country | Value (USD) | References |
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October 12, 1988 | Digital Video Interactive Technology Venture | Interactive multimedia (General Electric) | United States | Undisclosed | [8] |
July 6, 1989 | Jupiter Technologies | Computer networking | United States | Undisclosed | [9] |
May 7, 1991 | LAN Systems Products Division | Computer networking | United States | Undisclosed | [10] |
October 14, 1994 | Shany Computers Ltd. | Computer networking | Israel | Undisclosed | [11] |
January 17, 1997 | Case Technology | Computer networking | Denmark | $72,000,000 | [12] [13] |
July 27, 1997 | Chips and Technologies | Display chipsets | United States | $420,000,000 | [14] |
September 25, 1997 | Dayna Communications | Peripherals and modems | United States | $14,000,000 | [15] |
September 30, 1997 | Corollary, Inc. | Chipsets | United States | Undisclosed | [16] |
October 19, 1998 | Shiva Corporation | Computer networking | United States | Undisclosed | [17] |
November 30, 1998 | iCat Corporation | E-commerce | United States | Undisclosed | [18] [19] |
March 4, 1999 | Level One Communications | Computer networking | United States | $2,200,000,000 | [4] [20] |
July 7, 1999 | Softcom Microsystems | Networking chipsets | United States | Undisclosed | [21] |
September 1, 1999 | NetBoost | Networking traffic software | United States | Undisclosed | [22] |
September 27, 1999 | XLNT Networks | Computer networking | United States | Undisclosed | [22] |
October 5, 1999 | iPivot | E-commerce, computer networking | United States | $500,000,000 | [23] [24] |
November 15, 1999 | Parity Software Development | Communications software | United States | Undisclosed | [25] |
February 4, 2000 | Thinkit Technologies | Networking chipsets | United States | Undisclosed | [26] |
February 4, 2000 | Ambient Technologies | Networking chipsets | United States | $150,000,000 | [26] |
February 24, 2000 | Voice Technologies | IP telephony technologies | United States | Undisclosed | [27] [28] |
March 15, 2000 | Giga A/S | Computer networking | Denmark | $1,200,000,000 | [29] |
March 21, 2000 | Basis Communications | Networking chipsets | United States | $450,000,000 | [30] [31] |
April 6, 2000 | Kuck & Associates | Compilers | United States | Undisclosed | [32] |
April 10, 2000 | Picazo Communications | IP telephony technologies | United States | Undisclosed | [33] [34] |
June 26, 2000 | Ford Microelectronics | Mobile technologies | United States | Undisclosed | [27] [35] |
August 10, 2000 | DataKinetics | IP telephony technologies | United Kingdom | Undisclosed | [36] |
August 15, 2000 | Ziatech | Telecommunications | United States | $240,000,000 | [37] [38] |
January 15, 2001 | Xircom | Computer networking | United States | $748,000,000 | [39] |
February 26, 2001 | VxTel | IP telephony technologies | United States | $550,000,000 | [40] |
March 12, 2001 | CAD-UL | Electronic circuit design software | Germany | Undisclosed | [41] |
March 20, 2001 | ICP vortex Computersysteme | Computer storage technologies | Germany | Undisclosed | [42] |
April 24, 2001 | Cognet Inc. | Telecommunications | United States | Undisclosed | [43] |
April 24, 2001 | LightLogic | Telecommunications | United States | Undisclosed | [43] |
April 24, 2001 | NSerial | Telecommunications | United States | Undisclosed | [43] |
September 17, 2002 | Sparkolor Corporation | Telecommunications | United States | Undisclosed | [44] |
March 1, 2003 | Iospan Wireless | Wireless technologies | United States | Undisclosed | [45] |
June 1, 2003 | Scale Eight | Scalable software technologies | United States | Undisclosed | [46] |
July 8, 2003 | West Bay Semiconductor | Networking chipsets | United States | Undisclosed | [47] |
August 29, 2003 | Acirro | NAS software | United States | Undisclosed | [48] |
November 13, 2003 | Mobilian Corporation | Wireless technologies | United States | Undisclosed | [49] |
March 25, 2004 | Envara | Wireless chipsets | Israel | $40,000,000 | [50] |
February 25, 2005 | Oplus Technologies | Semiconductor design | Israel | $100,000,000 | [51] |
August 17, 2005 | Sarvega | XML software | United States | Undisclosed | [52] |
February 8, 2006 | Conformative Systems | XML software | United States | Undisclosed | [53] |
September 14, 2007 | Havok | Video game middleware | Ireland | $110,000,000 | [54] |
August 28, 2008 | Opened Hand | Linux software | United Kingdom | Undisclosed | [55] |
October 15, 2008 | NetEffect | Semiconductor | United States | $8,000,000 | [56] |
February 1, 2009 | Swiftfoot Graphics AB | 3D computer graphics software | Sweden | Undisclosed | [57] [58] |
June 4, 2009 | Wind River Systems | Software | United States | $884,000,000 | [59] |
July 1, 2009 | Cilk Arts | Programming languages | United States | Undisclosed | [60] |
August 19, 2009 | RapidMind | Electronic circuit design software | Canada | Undisclosed | [61] |
February 1, 2010 | Infineon Wireless Solutions | Wireless technologies | Germany | $1,400,000,000 | [62] |
August 19, 2010 | McAfee | Internet security | United States | $7,680,000,000 | [63] |
November 15, 2010 | CognoVision | Audience measurement | Canada | $25,000,000 | [64] |
March 14, 2011 | SySDSoft | Mobile software and technologies | Egypt | Undisclosed | [65] |
March 17, 2011 | Silicon Hive | Electronic circuit design software | Netherlands | Undisclosed | [66] |
April 14, 2011 | Nordic Edge | Security | Sweden | Undisclosed | [67] |
May 25, 2011 | SiPort | Wireless technologies | United States | Undisclosed | [68] |
July 19, 2011 | Fulcrum Microsystems | Semiconductor | United States | Undisclosed | [69] |
September 13, 2011 | CoFluent Design | Electronic system-level design and verification software | France | Undisclosed | [70] |
September 29, 2011 | Telmap | Mobile navigation software | Israel | Undisclosed | [71] |
April 17, 2012 | Olaworks | Facial recognition technologies | Korea | $31,000,000 | [72] |
July 2, 2012 | IDesia | Biometric technologies | Israel | Undisclosed | [73] |
July 13, 2012 | Whamcloud | Open-source parallel file systems | United States | Undisclosed | [74] |
November 20, 2012 | ZiiLABS | Semiconductor | United Kingdom | $50,000,000 | [75] |
February 21, 2013 | appMobi | HTML5 developer tools | United States | Undisclosed | [76] [77] |
April 17, 2013 | Mashery | Analytics | United States | $120,000,000– $180,000,000 | [78] [79] |
April 28, 2013 | Aepona | Computer networking software | Ireland | Undisclosed | [80] |
July 16, 2013 | Omek Interactive | Pointing device gesture recognition | Israel | $40,000,000 | [81] |
July 22, 2013 | Xtreme Insights | Analytics | United States | Undisclosed | [82] |
September 13, 2013 | Indisys | Natural language processing | Spain | $26,000,000 | [83] |
September 30, 2013 | Sensory Networks | Network security | United States | $20,000,000 | [84] |
November 8, 2013 | Kno | Educational software | United States | Undisclosed | [85] |
November 20, 2013 | Hacker League | Hackathon management software | United States | Undisclosed | [86] |
March 3, 2014 | Basis Science | Wearable computers | United States | $100,000,000 | [87] |
August 13, 2014 | LSI Axxia | Semiconductor | United States | $650,000,000 | [88] |
December 1, 2014 | PasswordBox | Internet security | United States | Undisclosed | [89] |
January 21, 2015 | Composyt Light Labs | Wearable computers | Switzerland | Undisclosed | [90] |
February 2, 2015 | Lantiq | Wireless technologies | Germany | $345,000,000 | [91] |
June 1, 2015 | Altera | Semiconductor | United States | $16,700,000,000 | [92] |
June 18, 2015 | Recon Instruments | Wearable computers | Canada | $175,000,000 | [93] |
August 14, 2015 | Docea Power | Software | France | Undisclosed | [94] |
October 26, 2015 | Saffron Technology | Machine learning | United States | Undisclosed | [95] |
January 4, 2016 | Ascending Technologies | Unmanned aerial vehicles | Germany | Undisclosed | [96] |
March 8, 2016 | Replay Technologies | 3D sportscasting technologies | Israel | $175,000,000 | [97] |
April 5, 2016 | Yogitech | Semiconductor | Italy | Undisclosed | [98] |
May 26, 2016 | Itseez | Artificial intelligence | United States | Undisclosed | [99] |
August 9, 2016 | Nervana Systems | Artificial intelligence | United States | $350,000,000– $400,000,000 | [100] [101] |
September 6, 2016 | Movidius | Semiconductor | Ireland | $400,000,000 | [102] |
September 9, 2016 | Soft Machines | Semiconductor | United States | $250,000,000 | [103] |
November 1, 2016 | MAVinci GmbH | Unmanned aerial vehicles | Germany | Undisclosed | [104] |
November 3, 2016 | Voke VR | Virtual reality | United States | Undisclosed | [105] |
March 13, 2017 | Mobileye | Machine learning | Israel | $15,300,000,000 | [106] |
July 12, 2018 | eASIC | Semiconductor | United States | Undisclosed | [107] |
April 16, 2019 | Omnitek | FPGA video acceleration | United Kingdom | Undisclosed | [108] [109] |
June 10, 2019 | Barefoot Networks | Computer networking | United States | Undisclosed | [110] |
December 16, 2019 | Habana Labs | Machine learning technology | Israel | $2,000,000,000 | [5] |
May 4, 2020 | Moovit | Freight transport data | Israel | $900,000,000 | [111] |
May 20, 2020 | Rivet Networks | Computer networking | United States | Undisclosed | [112] |
September 24, 2020 | Cosmonio | Machine vision | Netherlands | Undisclosed | [113] |
November 9, 2021 | Centaur Technology | Semiconductor (VIA Technologies) | US | $125,000,000 | [114] |
November 9, 2021 | RemoteMyApp | Cloud gaming | Poland | Undisclosed | [115] |
December 6, 2021 | Screenovate | Machine vision | Israel | Undisclosed | [116] |
March 31, 2022 | Granulate Cloud Solutions | Cloud computing | Israel | $650,000,000 | [117] |
May 3, 2022 | Siru Innovations | Graphics cards | Finland | Undisclosed | [118] |
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