Acquisition strengthens ON Semiconductor’s capabilities in advanced connectivity applications for Industrial, Automotive, and Carrier markets
PHOENIX — (BUSINESS WIRE) — June 19, 2019 — ON Semiconductor Corporation (Nasdaq: ON) (“ON Semiconductor”) announced today that the company has successfully completed its previously announced acquisition of Quantenna Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: QTNA) (“Quantenna”) for $24.50 per share in an all cash transaction.
“The combination of Quantenna’s industry leading Wi-Fi technologies and ON Semiconductor’s leadership in power and analog semiconductors, coupled with the combined company’s broad sales and distribution reach, creates a formidable platform to address connectivity applications in industrial, automotive, and carrier markets,” said Keith Jackson, president and chief executive officer of ON Semiconductor. “I am pleased to welcome the employees of Quantenna to ON Semiconductor, and I look forward to the opportunities this acquisition will create for our customers, shareholders, and employees.”
Quantenna will be integrated into ON Semiconductor’s Analog Solutions Group, headed by Vince Hopkin.
About ON Semiconductor
ON Semiconductor (Nasdaq: ON) is driving energy efficient innovations, empowering customers to reduce global energy use. The Company is a leading supplier of semiconductor-based solutions, offering a comprehensive portfolio of energy efficient power management, analog, sensors, logic, timing, connectivity, discrete, SoC, and custom devices. The Company’s products help engineers solve their unique design challenges in automotive, communications, computing, consumer, industrial, medical, aerospace, and defense applications. ON Semiconductor operates a responsive, reliable, world-class supply chain and quality program, a robust compliance and ethics program, and a network of manufacturing facilities, sales offices, and design centers in key markets throughout North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific regions. For more information, visit www.onsemi.com.
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related to: the expectation that the combination of Quantenna and ON
Semiconductor creates a formidable platform to address connectivity
applications in industrial and automotive end-markets; and the
anticipated opportunities the acquisition will create for ON
Semiconductor's customers, shareholders, and employees. These
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that there may be a material adverse change of ON Semiconductor or
Quantenna, or our respective businesses may suffer as a result of
uncertainty surrounding the transaction; the transaction may involve
unexpected costs or liabilities; difficulties encountered in integrating
Quantenna, including the potentially accretive and synergistic benefits;
difficulties leveraging desired growth opportunities and markets; the
possibility that expected benefits and cost savings may not materialize
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distributors; technological and product development risks; enforcement
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other supply chain uncertainties; our ability to effectively shift
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continuity for our customers; variable demand and the aggressive pricing
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manufacture in increasing volumes on a cost-effective basis and with
acceptable quality for our current products; risks associated with other
acquisitions and dispositions, including our ability to realize the
anticipated benefits of our acquisitions and dispositions; risks that
acquisitions or dispositions may disrupt our current plans and
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integrating and consolidating acquired businesses, our timely filing of
financial information with the SEC for acquired businesses and our
ability to accurately predict the future financial performance of
acquired businesses; competitor actions, including the adverse impact of
competitor product announcements; pricing and gross profit pressures;
loss of key customers or distributors; order cancellations or reduced
bookings; changes in manufacturing yields; control of costs and expenses
and realization of cost savings and synergies from restructurings;
significant litigation; risks associated with decisions to expend cash
reserves for various uses in accordance with our capital allocation
policy such as debt prepayment, stock repurchases or acquisitions rather
than to retain such cash for future needs; risks associated with our
substantial leverage and restrictive covenants in our debt agreements
that may be in place from time to time; risks associated with our
worldwide operations, including changes in trade policies, foreign
employment and labor matters associated with unions and collective
bargaining arrangements, as well as man-made and/or natural disasters
affecting our operations or financial results; the threat or occurrence
of international armed conflict and terrorist activities both in the
United States and internationally; risks of changes in U.S. or
international tax rates or legislation, including the impact of the
recent U.S. tax legislation; risks and costs associated with increased
and new regulation of corporate governance and disclosure standards;
risks related to new legal requirements; risks associated with the
addition of Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. and its non-U.S. affiliates
and subsidiaries to the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry
Security Entity List; and risks involving environmental or other
governmental regulation. Information concerning additional factors that
could cause results to differ materially from those projected in the
forward-looking statements is contained in ON Semiconductor’s Annual
Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018, filed with the
SEC on February 20, 2019, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current
Reports on Form 8-K and other of ON Semiconductor’s filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission. These forward-looking statements are
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