Mellanox Seeks to Make System-on-Chip by 2018 After Merger

Need for more innovation drove Mellanox Technologies Ltd.’s $811 million acquisition of EZchip Semiconductor Ltd., Eyal Waldman, Mellanox chief executive officer, said.

“We thought of doing system-on-a-chip some time ago but didn’t have enough organic resources to do the device,” Waldman said in an interview after a press conference in Tel Aviv on Thursday. “This merger will enable us to bring the processing ability from EZchip and our networking capability to a system-on-a-chip device.” The technology will make the chip more “intelligent” enabling it to have cyber security and storage capabilities, among other things, he said.