AUSTIN, Texas -- Silicon Laboratories Inc. (Nasdaq: SLAB) today announced it has completed the acquisition of privately held Cygnal Integrated Products, an Austin-based innovator of analog-intensive, highly integrated 8-bit microcontrollers (MCUs). Cygnal's portfolio of overmore than 50 general-purpose products will add breadth and diversity to Silicon Laboratories' existing product line of high-performance, application-specific mixed-signal ICs.
In connection with the acquisition, Silicon Laboratories issued approximately 1.2 million shares of common stock in exchange for all outstanding shares of Cygnal capital stock. Up to approximately 1.3 million additional shares of Silicon Laboratories common stock will be reserved for future issuance to the shareholders of Cygnal based on the achievement of certain revenue milestones following the closing of the transaction.
This acquisition allows Silicon Laboratories to address This acquisition gives Silicon Laboratories access to both the intersection between the 8-bit MCU market and the high-performance analog markets, which we believe is which are estimated by Gartner to be $5 billion and $9 billion respectivelya multi-billion dollar market opportunity,? said Dan Artusi, president and COO chief operating officer of Silicon Laboratories. The strong analog-intensive, mixed-signal emphasis nature of the MCU product family is a nice complements to our existing product portfolio lines while broadening the applications we serve. With a synergistic sales channel and supply chain and sales channel,Additionally, the fully intend supply chain and sales channel synergy will allow us to hit the ground running and quickly cultivatewith the newest addition to Silicon Labs broadening product portfolio.
With the close of this acquisition, Cygnal will be relocated to Silicon Laboratories' facilities in Austin before year-end, and its products will be sold under the Silicon Laboratories name. Silicon Laboratories will continue to support and invest in Cygnal's complete portfolio of MCU products. The acquisition is expected to be slightly dilutive to Silicon Laboratories in 2004, becoming accretive during 2005.
About Silicon Laboratories Inc.
Silicon Laboratories Inc. is a leading designer of high-performance, analog-intensive mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs) for a broad range of applications. Silicon Laboratories' diverse portfolio of highly integrated, patented solutions is developed by a world-class engineering team with decades of cumulative expertise in cutting-edge mixed-signal design. The company has design, engineering, marketing, sales and applications offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia. For more information about Silicon Laboratories please visit http://www.silabs.com.
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Dateline: 02/10/03