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List of mergers and acquisitions by Intel

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Intel Corporation, an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, is the world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturer by revenue. 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. 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, 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. 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.

01Acquisitions

Date Company Business Country Value (USD) Adjusted (USD) References
October 12, 1988 Digital Video Interactive Technology Venture Interactive multimedia (General Electric)  United States Undisclosed Undisclosed
July 6, 1989 Jupiter Technologies Computer networking  United States Undisclosed Undisclosed
May 7, 1991 LAN Systems Products Division Computer networking  United States Undisclosed Undisclosed
October 14, 1994 Shany Computers Ltd. Computer networking  Israel Undisclosed Undisclosed
January 17, 1997 Case Technology Computer networking  Denmark $72,000,000 $144,000,000
July 27, 1997 Chips and Technologies Display chipsets  United States $420,000,000 $842,000,000
September 25, 1997 Dayna Communications Peripherals and modems  United States $14,000,000 $28,000,000
September 30, 1997 Corollary, Inc. Chipsets  United States Undisclosed Undisclosed
October 19, 1998 Shiva Corporation Computer networking  United States Undisclosed Undisclosed
November 30, 1998 iCat Corporation E-commerce  United States Undisclosed Undisclosed
March 4, 1999 Level One Communications Computer networking  United States $2,200,000,000 $4,252,000,000
July 7, 1999 Softcom Microsystems Networking chipsets  United States Undisclosed Undisclosed
September 1, 1999 NetBoost Networking traffic software  United States Undisclosed Undisclosed
September 27, 1999 XLNT Networks Computer networking  United States Undisclosed Undisclosed
October 5, 1999 iPivot E-commerce, computer networking  United States $500,000,000 $966,000,000
November 15, 1999 Parity Software Development Communications software  United States Undisclosed Undisclosed
February 4, 2000 Thinkit Technologies Networking chipsets  United States Undisclosed Undisclosed
February 4, 2000 Ambient Technologies Networking chipsets  United States $150,000,000 $280,000,000
February 24, 2000 Voice Technologies IP telephony technologies  United States Undisclosed Undisclosed
March 15, 2000 Giga A/S Computer networking  Denmark $1,200,000,000 $2,243,000,000
March 21, 2000 Basis Communications Networking chipsets  United States $450,000,000 $841,000,000
April 6, 2000 Kuck & Associates Compilers  United States Undisclosed Undisclosed
April 10, 2000 Picazo Communications IP telephony technologies  United States Undisclosed Undisclosed
June 26, 2000 Ford Microelectronics Mobile technologies  United States Undisclosed Undisclosed
August 10, 2000 DataKinetics IP telephony technologies  United Kingdom Undisclosed Undisclosed
August 15, 2000 Ziatech Telecommunications  United States $240,000,000 $449,000,000
January 15, 2001 Xircom Computer networking  United States $748,000,000 $1,360,000,000
February 26, 2001 VxTel IP telephony technologies  United States $550,000,000 $1,000,000,000
March 12, 2001 CAD-UL Electronic circuit design software  Germany Undisclosed Undisclosed
March 20, 2001 ICP vortex Computersysteme Computer storage technologies  Germany Undisclosed Undisclosed
April 24, 2001 Cognet Inc. Telecommunications  United States Undisclosed Undisclosed
April 24, 2001 LightLogic Telecommunications  United States Undisclosed Undisclosed
April 24, 2001 NSerial Telecommunications  United States Undisclosed Undisclosed
September 17, 2002 Sparkolor Corporation Telecommunications  United States Undisclosed Undisclosed
March 1, 2003 Iospan Wireless Wireless technologies  United States Undisclosed Undisclosed
June 1, 2003 Scale Eight Scalable software technologies  United States Undisclosed Undisclosed
July 8, 2003 West Bay Semiconductor Networking chipsets  United States Undisclosed Undisclosed
August 29, 2003 Acirro NAS software  United States Undisclosed Undisclosed
November 13, 2003 Mobilian Corporation Wireless technologies  United States Undisclosed Undisclosed
March 25, 2004 Envara Wireless chipsets  Israel $40,000,000 $68,000,000
February 25, 2005 Oplus Technologies Semiconductor design  Israel $100,000,000 $165,000,000
August 17, 2005 Sarvega XML software  United States Undisclosed Undisclosed
February 8, 2006 Conformative Systems XML software  United States Undisclosed Undisclosed
September 14, 2007 Havok Video game middleware  Ireland $110,000,000 $171,000,000
August 28, 2008 Opened Hand Linux software  United Kingdom Undisclosed Undisclosed
October 15, 2008 NetEffect Semiconductor  United States $8,000,000 $12,000,000
February 1, 2009 Swiftfoot Graphics AB 3D computer graphics software  Sweden Undisclosed Undisclosed
June 4, 2009 Wind River Systems Software  United States $884,000,000 $1,327,000,000
July 1, 2009 Cilk Arts Programming languages  United States Undisclosed Undisclosed
August 19, 2009 RapidMind Electronic circuit design software  Canada Undisclosed Undisclosed
February 1, 2010 Infineon Wireless Solutions Wireless technologies  Germany $1,400,000,000 $2,067,000,000
August 19, 2010 McAfee Internet security  United States $7,680,000,000 $11,339,000,000
November 15, 2010 CognoVision Audience measurement  Canada $25,000,000 $37,000,000
March 14, 2011 SySDSoft Mobile software and technologies  Egypt Undisclosed Undisclosed
March 17, 2011 Silicon Hive Electronic circuit design software  Netherlands Undisclosed Undisclosed
April 14, 2011 Nordic Edge Security  Sweden Undisclosed Undisclosed
May 25, 2011 SiPort Wireless technologies  United States Undisclosed Undisclosed
July 19, 2011 Fulcrum Microsystems Semiconductor  United States Undisclosed Undisclosed
September 13, 2011 CoFluent Design Electronic system-level design and verification software  France Undisclosed Undisclosed
September 29, 2011 Telmap Mobile navigation software  Israel Undisclosed Undisclosed
April 17, 2012 Olaworks Facial recognition technologies  Korea $31,000,000 $44,000,000
July 2, 2012 IDesia Biometric technologies  Israel Undisclosed Undisclosed
July 13, 2012 Whamcloud Open-source parallel file systems  United States Undisclosed Undisclosed
November 20, 2012 ZiiLABS Semiconductor  United Kingdom $50,000,000 $70,000,000
February 21, 2013 appMobi HTML5 developer tools  United States Undisclosed Undisclosed
April 17, 2013 Mashery Analytics  United States $120,000,000,
$180,000,000
$166,000,000
$249,000,000
April 28, 2013 Aepona Computer networking software  Ireland Undisclosed Undisclosed
July 16, 2013 Omek Interactive Pointing device gesture recognition  Israel $40,000,000 $55,000,000
July 22, 2013 Xtreme Insights Analytics  United States Undisclosed Undisclosed
September 13, 2013 Indisys Natural language processing  Spain $26,000,000 $36,000,000
September 30, 2013 Sensory Networks Network security  United States $20,000,000 $28,000,000
November 8, 2013 Kno Educational software  United States Undisclosed Undisclosed
November 20, 2013 Hacker League Hackathon management software  United States Undisclosed Undisclosed
March 3, 2014 Basis Science Wearable computers  United States $100,000,000 $136,000,000
August 13, 2014 LSI Axxia Semiconductor  United States $650,000,000 $884,000,000
December 1, 2014 PasswordBox Internet security  United States Undisclosed Undisclosed
January 21, 2015 Composyt Light Labs Wearable computers   Switzerland Undisclosed Undisclosed
February 2, 2015 Lantiq Wireless technologies  Germany $345,000,000 $469,000,000
June 1, 2015 Altera Semiconductor  United States $16,700,000,000 $22,683,000,000
June 18, 2015 Recon Instruments Wearable computers  Canada $175,000,000 $238,000,000
August 14, 2015 Docea Power Software  France Undisclosed Undisclosed
October 26, 2015 Saffron Technology Machine learning  United States Undisclosed Undisclosed
January 4, 2016 Ascending Technologies Unmanned aerial vehicles  Germany Undisclosed Undisclosed
March 8, 2016 Replay Technologies 3D sportscasting technologies  Israel $175,000,000 $235,000,000
April 5, 2016 Yogitech Semiconductor  Italy Undisclosed Undisclosed
May 26, 2016 Itseez Artificial intelligence  United States Undisclosed Undisclosed
August 9, 2016 Nervana Systems Artificial intelligence  United States $350,000,000,
$400,000,000
$470,000,000
$537,000,000
September 6, 2016 Movidius Semiconductor  Ireland $400,000,000 $537,000,000
September 9, 2016 Soft Machines Semiconductor  United States $250,000,000 $335,000,000
November 1, 2016 MAVinci GmbH Unmanned aerial vehicles  Germany Undisclosed Undisclosed
November 3, 2016 Voke VR Virtual reality  United States Undisclosed Undisclosed
March 13, 2017 Mobileye Machine learning  Israel $15,300,000,000 $20,096,000,000
July 12, 2018 eASIC Semiconductor  United States Undisclosed Undisclosed
April 16, 2019 Omnitek FPGA video acceleration  United Kingdom Undisclosed Undisclosed
June 10, 2019 Barefoot Networks Computer networking  United States Undisclosed Undisclosed
December 16, 2019 Habana Labs Machine learning technology  Israel $2,000,000,000 $2,519,000,000
May 4, 2020 Moovit Freight transport data  Israel $900,000,000 $1,120,000,000
May 20, 2020 Rivet Networks Computer networking  United States Undisclosed Undisclosed
September 24, 2020 Cosmonio Machine vision  Netherlands Undisclosed Undisclosed
November 9, 2021 Centaur Technology Semiconductor (VIA Technologies)  US $125,000,000 $149,000,000
November 9, 2021 RemoteMyApp Cloud gaming  Poland Undisclosed Undisclosed
December 6, 2021 Screenovate Machine vision  Israel Undisclosed Undisclosed
March 31, 2022 Granulate Cloud Solutions Cloud computing  Israel $650,000,000 $715,000,000
May 3, 2022 Siru Innovations Graphics cards  Finland Undisclosed Undisclosed
June 1, 2022 Codeplay Software  United Kingdom Undisclosed Undisclosed
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