Broadcom acquired Bulk Acoustic Wave Filter business of Infineon Technologies AG for $32 million, a transaction completed in 2008, structured as All-cash acquisition of a business, completed in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2008..
Bulk Acoustic Wave Filter business of Infineon Technologies AG operates in Wireless / RF filters (FBAR), is based in Germany. In the fourth quarter of its 2008 fiscal year, Avago Technologies (later renamed Broadcom) acquired the Bulk Acoustic Wave (BAW) filter business of Germany's Infineon Technologies AG for $32 million in cash. The acquisition added RF filter product lines that complemented Avago's film bulk acoustic resonator (FBAR) technology for wireless handsets.
The deal reinforced Avago's radio-frequency filter capability and its leadership in FBAR-based filters and duplexers for mobile and wireless devices.
Advisory firms were not disclosed for this transaction.