Worldwide leading wide-spectral Silicon Photomultiplier technology
KETEK was looking for a strategic investor to expand its Silicon Photomultiplier (SiPM) technology into new markets.
ARTHOS served as the exclusive financial advisor to the owners of KETEK throughout the entire sell-side M&A process. This included:
Managing Partner ARTHOS
Expert in Sensors, Automation, Semiconductor & Photonics
Effective 7 October 2021, KETEK GmbH (Munich, Germany) and Broadcom Inc. and its subsidiaries (“Broadcom”, San Jose, CA, USA) signed an agreement pursuant to which Broadcom acquired the Silicon Photomultiplier (SiPM) assets of KETEK.
Broadcom will take over all SiPM products from KETEK, integrate the former KETEK SiPM products in the Broadcom SiPM portfolio and continue the sales of all SiPM products.
Founded 1989 and based in Munich, KETEK is the world’s leading manufacturer of Silicon Drift Detectors, which are used in an almost infinite number of industrial material analysis applications. KETEKs SDDs can be found in X-ray fluorescence spectrometers, electron microscopes and contribute to countless material research experiments around the Earth. Within the last decade, KETEKs Silicon Photomultiplier Technology has always represented the state-of-the-art in this young and most advanced segment of ultra-sensitive and very fast photonics detectors.
Broadcom Inc., (NASDAQ: AVGO), a Delaware corporation headquartered in San Jose, CA, is a global technology leader that designs, develops and supplies a broad range of semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions. Broadcom’s category-leading product portfolio serves critical markets including data center, networking, enterprise software, broadband, wireless, storage and industrial. Our solutions include data center networking and storage, enterprise, mainframe and cyber security software focused on automation, monitoring and security, smartphone components, telecoms and factory automation.
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