Texas Instruments will acquire Silicon Labs for $231.00 per share, representing a total enterprise value of approximately $7.5 billion. The transaction is expected to complete in the first half of 2027, subject to receipt of regulatory approvals and other conditions.
Silicon Labs wireless chips are fairly popular in Smart Home applications with Zigbee, Thread, and Matter connectivity, as well as low-power Bluetooth LE wearables and industrial Sub-GHz or 2.4 GHz IoT applications. I can still remember when Silicon Labs purchased Energy Micro in 2013, taking over the EFM32 Gecko MCU family, and about 13 years later, the company is changing hands again.
Texas Instruments explains the rationale behind the solution as follows:
The acquisition will create a global leader in embedded wireless connectivity solutions by combining Silicon Labs’ strong portfolio and expertise in mixed signal solutions with Texas Instruments’ leading analog and embedded processing portfolio and internally owned technology and manufacturing capabilities. The combined company will accelerate growth by better serving existing and new customers through enhanced innovation and market access
One change will be that the wireless microcontrollers will be manufactured by Texas Instruments itself, instead of external foundries. The transaction will also expand Texas Instruments’ portfolio with approximately 1,200 products with a range of wireless connectivity standards and protocols.
Texas Instruments already manufactures its own wireless microcontroller families, which support Amazon Sidewalk, Bluetooth Low Energy, Matter, Wi-Fi 6, Wi-SUN, multiprotocol, Wireless M-Bus, mioty, Thread, and/or Zigbee. That means there’s some overlap with Silicon Labs’ wireless chips, and we’ll have to see if there’s any consolidation with some products being phased out, or whether TI plans to keep maintaining two separate wireless families and development tools.
A few more details may be found in the announcement on the Texas Instruments website, and if you’re interested in Silicon Labs financials, the company reported its fourth quarter and full year 2025 results on the same date as the acquisition announcement.
Thanks to TLS for the tip.
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Wow another traditional name to disappear
Ti will be a monster in the ZigBee world owning chipcon and em/silicon labs
Nordic and espressif left
You forgot that Silicon Labs also owns Z-Wave, so TI will be controlling most standards now.
Lol probably i never got what zwave really is
Thats just great Russia would have even more uses for TI chips in their weapons and missiles. TI here buying out another company instead of paying restitution for all the death and destruction in Ukraine while the US sit there and intentionally do nothing for prevention. Why is the US not being fined on the world stage. Then accuse other countries of siding with Putin in order to distract. Making excuses to steal Greenland. But the world knows the fascist liars.
How is that related to my post you are answering to? Im confused ..
I dount that the EU will approve such a merger.
For a moment I thought it was an April 1st joke!
This might actually reduce prices. We use some TI chips because they are a decent value for the money and have avoided Silicon Labs due to poor value for the dollar. If TI brings better pricing in to the deal we’d reevaluate some of our chip choices.
What you talking crazy about. Since time forever, mergers have always resulted in higher prices when competition ends. Proven again and again.
Capital must accumulate. Regulations are just an impediment from its point of view