DDC to buy Maxwell Microelectronics, expanding rad-hard business
NewsApril 29, 2016
BOHEMIA, New York. Officials at Data Device Corporation (DDC) announced that the company entered into an agreement to acquire the microelectronics group from Maxwell Technologies, Inc. in San Diego. DDC, already a player in the space electronic market, just increased their market share significantly by adding Maxwell?s space-qualified microelectronics solutions for satellites and spacecraft.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
“The combined DDC & Maxwell Microelectronics business will provide best-in-class connectivity, power and motion control solutions for the space industry across the entire market space, says Joe Pipczynski, Vice President, Data Bus Products at DDC. “It expands [our reach in the commercial satellites as Maxwell] is a known, qualified supplier and in military programs [it] broadens our offering in the existing customer pool by expanding DDC’s Radiation Tolerant product offering with new memories, radiation shielded semiconductors and single board computer (SBC) solutions.”
Maxwell has a nice niche in the market with rad-hard SBCs and in their rad-hard packaging, which should fit well with DDC’s product line, but with any merger acquisition branding is likely to change in some respects.
Pipczynski says DDC’s plan is to “re-position Maxwell Microelectronics as a DDC-branded product. Our Space business is across the enterprise and falls under our Rad-Tolerant Solutions.”
The move should help position the company well for fast-growing small sat/mega constellation market, which will push toward more commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) investment.
“Our combined strengths allow us the opportunity for product cross selling in key markets like small sat/mega constellation,” he says. DDC’s COTS products and space qualified components right into this paradigm, he adds.
The Maxwell purchase also comes with their DLA approved MIL-PRF-38534 facility.
