Analog Devices in talks to buy Empower Semiconductor for $1.5 billion, Bloomberg News reports
The cash deal would add Empower’s voltage regulators, which the company says can cut system power use by about 20% for AI data centers.
- On Monday, Wilmington, Massachusetts-based Analog Devices announced a definitive agreement to acquire Silicon Valley-based Empower Semiconductor for $1.5 billion in cash, strengthening its power-delivery technology for artificial intelligence data centers.
- Power and thermal demands currently limit system scale and efficiency in artificial intelligence infrastructure, with energy now the most persistent constraint to scaling next-generation systems.
- Empower's integrated voltage regulators feed current vertically through circuit boards rather than sideways, a design that can trim roughly 20% of a system's total power consumption.
- Empower CEO Tim Phillips will oversee integrated voltage regulator development within ADI following the transaction's expected close in the second half of 2026, subject to regulatory clearance.
- Analog Devices reports earnings today while the merger expands its grid-to-core power portfolio as AI data centers face surging energy demands and rising operational costs.
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Analog Devices buys Empower Semiconductor for $1.5bn
Analog Devices has agreed to buy Empower Semiconductor for $1.5 billion in cash, placing a major bet that the insatiable energy demands of AI data centres will keep chipmakers scrambling for better power-delivery technology. The deal, announced on Monday, gives the Wilmington, Massachusetts-based chipmaker access to Empower’s integrated voltage regulators, which sit directly beneath AI accelerators and […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Analog Devices to Acquire Empower Semiconductor, Expanding its Next-Generation High-Density Power Portfolio for the AI Era
Addresses a critical challenge in AI – delivering high-density, energy-efficient compute as power and thermal demands limit system scaleFurther advances ADI's position as a leading strategic, system-level grid-to-core power partner for hyperscalers and AI silicon developersExpands ADI's total addressable market…
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