赛普拉斯欲以8,600万美元收购Ramtron

芯片厂商赛普拉斯（Cypress）日前宣布以每股2.48美元的出价，求购非挥发性内存供货商Ramtron；该价格是Ramtron股票6月11日收盘价的37%溢价。若以Ramtron总共3,500万股的在外流通股计算，该收购案总价将达8,600万美元。 Cypress在2011年3月就尝试过收购Ramtron，当时出价为每股3.01美元，不过提案被拒绝。Ramtron是一家铁电内存(FRAM)供货商，代工合作伙伴包括三星电子(Samsung)、德州仪器(TI)以及东芝(Toshiba)；该公司并授权德州仪器生产内建FRAM的低功耗应用微控制器。在2012年第一季，Ramtron净利为44万5,000美元、总营收1,500万美元。 针对这桩收购提案，Cypress CEO T.J. Rodgers表示其出价是符合Ramtron股东利益的，并吁请Ramtron董事对提案认真进行讨论；而与Cypress的结合将可为Ramtron带来更稳定的研发资源、更宽广的销售通路支持，也将为该公司员工提供更佳的长期发展机会、以及更具国际化的组织环境。 编译：Judith Cheng 本文下一页：参考英文原文：Cypress goes public on offers to buy Ramtron，by Peter Clarke

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{pagination} Cypress goes public on offers to buy Ramtron Peter Clarke LONDON – Chip company Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (San Jose, Calif.) has announced it has offered to acquire all the outstanding stock of non-volatile memory company Ramtron International Corp. (Colorado Springs, Colorado) for $2.48 per share, a 37 percent premium over Ramtron's closing stock price on Monday June 11. With about 35 million shares outstanding shares this would represent a purchase price of about $86 million. Cypress revealed that it had attempted to buy Ramtron in March 2011 at $3.01 per share but that the previous offer had been rejected by the company. Ramtron supplies ferroelectric random access memories and works with Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Texas Instruments Inc. and Toshiba Corp. as manufacturing partners. Ramtron has also allowed Texas Instruments to produce microcontrollers with embedded ferroelectric memory for use in low power applications. In the first quarter of 2012 Ramtron made a net profit of $445,000 on sales revenue of $15.0 million. "We believe that our offer provides compelling value to Ramtron's stockholders," said T.J. Rodgers, president and CEO of Cypress, in a statement. "Last year, we attempted to negotiate an acquisition of Ramtron, but our offer of $3.01 per share – which represented the same 37 percent premium to Ramtron's then-current stock price as we are offering today – was summarily rejected. Soon thereafter, Ramtron sold almost 20 percent of its stock in a dilutive public offering at a net price of $1.79 per share," Rodgers continued. "At this time, we call on Ramtron's Board of Directors to act in the best interests of its stockholders by meeting with us to seriously discuss our compelling proposal. We believe that Cypress would benefit Ramtron's customers, providing them with a more stable source of supply, greater research and development resources and better support from a much larger sales channel. We also believe the combination would provide Ramtron's employees with more opportunity for long-term success as part of a larger, more global organization," Rodgers said. Cypress has made public the text of letters sent to Ramtron by email on June 12, 2012 and letters sent on March 8, March 10 and April 11, 2011.