Reporting that NVIDIA acquired Israeli semiconductor makers with about 655 billion yen or more, technology for data center and customers aim

by BagoGames

Israel's economic media Calcalist reports that chip maker NVIDIA is likely to acquire a communications infrastructure equipment manufacturer "Mellanox Technologies" for data centers. As of March 7, 2019, the corporate value of Mellanox Technologies is approximately $ 5.9 billion (about 655 billion yen) at the market price, which will be the biggest purchase ever for NVIDIA if it reaches an agreement to acquire .

בלומברג: אנבידיה קרובה לרכישת מלאנוקס, העסקה עשויה להיסגר מחר
https://www.calcalist.co.il/markets/articles/0,7340,L -3757980,00.html

Nvidia nears deal to acquire Mellanox Technologies: Source
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/10/nvidia-nears-deal-to-acquire-mellanox-technologies-source.html

Mellanox Technologies is a fabless semiconductor maker that former executives of Intel founded in Israel in 1999. Initially it was established as a chip manufacturer, but in 2009 it became a manufacturer of network end-to-end systems. Published in 2007, NASDAQ's initial public offering raised 102 million dollars (about 11.3 billion yen), the corporate value at that time was evaluated to be over 500 million dollars (about 55 billion yen) It was.

In March 2011 Mellanox Technologies acquired Voltaire, a data center switch maker, for approximately $ 218 million (about 24.2 billion yen). From here Mellanox Technologies has established itself as one of the biggest providers of server storage markets for data centers.

by Open Grid Scheduler / Grid Engine

The corporate value of Mellanox Technologies is about 655 billion yen, but various companies such as Intel and Microsoft are paying attention and it is anticipated that "NVIDIA will be acquired at a considerably high price than the market price" It is. Indeed, although it was reported that Intel also bidding for the acquisition of Mellanox Technologies in addition to NVIDIA, according to anonymous information providers, NVIDIA has a dominant advantage over Intel, local time of 2019 3 We are in a situation where it is possible to announce transactions on the 11 th of December until the agreement is reached.

As the mining boom by GPU came to an end, the demand for gaming GPU sharply declined. In addition, NVIDIA reduced sales forecast for the fourth quarter of 2018 to $ 500 million (about 55 billion yen), as sales in the data center division also fell short of expectations. NVIDIA embarked on the acquisition of Mellanox Technologies to compete with Intel which is a major provider of the data center service market by reducing dependency on the gaming PC market and mining market and by using Mellanox Technologies' It seems that it wants to win.

by NVIDIA Corporation

In addition, it seems that response to Calcalist's interview was not obtained from either NVIDIA, Intel or Mellanox Technologies.