Rohm Co. Ltd., Japan, announces that it has completed the acquisition of Powervation Ltd., Cork, Ireland. The strategic combination of Powervation’s Intelligent Digital Power platform with Rohm’s leading analog power technology and global market access will enable the company to address a broad range of fast growing market opportunities.
Rohm, a $3B provider of analog and power semiconductors, supplies a diversified global customer base in the consumer, automotive, and industrial markets. By acquiring Powervation, Rohm will gain leading-edge digital power technologies to strengthen its product offerings in the rapidly-growing cloud, data-center, and communications infrastructure markets. This acquisition will also enable Rohm to develop advanced digital power solutions for a broader range of markets and applications with Powervation’s flexible controller platform.
According to market research reports, digital power continues to progressively displace traditional analog technology in the $11B global power management IC market driven by its performance and energy efficiency advantages.
Powervation will become a fully owned subsidiary of Rohm, with a principal design center in Cork, and system application centers in San Jose, Calif. Rohm plans to accelerate product development through investment and synergies with Rohm analog / discrete power technologies and to increase market adoption further by leveraging Rohm’s global customer base and channels.
