--- description: Intel announced Monday its acquisition of Altera for $16.7 billion. title: This Chart Shows 10 Major Tech Acquisitions From the Past 15 Years image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Business](/section/business/) ## Business Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Companies](/tag/companies/) ## Companies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # This Chart Shows 10 Major Tech Acquisitions From the Past 15 Years  by [Jack Linshi](/author/jack-linshi/)  ## Jack Linshi Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 1, 2015 2:59 PM CUT  by [Jack Linshi](/author/jack-linshi/)  ## Jack Linshi Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 1, 2015 2:59 PM CUT Huge acquisitions are being made one after the other — especially in the semiconductor industry, lately. On Monday, [Intel announced a $16.7 billion all-cash acquisition of Altera](http://time.com/3903120/intel-altera/?preview%5Fid=3903120&preview%5Fnonce=f622055ea7 "undefined"), the second major deal in the sector in less than a week: Just a few days ago, Avago Technologies agreed to pay $37 billion in cash and stock for Broadcom. In the chart above, take a look back at 10 of the most important tech acquisitions in the past 15 years, from [Facebook’s $22 billion acquisition of WhatsApp](http://time.com/3477028/facebook-whatsapp-19-billion-dollar-deal/ "undefined") last year to the [HP-Compaq](http://www8.hp.com/us/en/hp-news/press-release.html?id=230610#.VWxow2R3lpg "undefined") merger back in 2001. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3903172/tech-acqusitions/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3903172/tech-acqusitions/"},"headline":"This Chart Shows 10 Major Tech Acquisitions From the Past 15 Years","datePublished":"2015-06-01T14:59:18.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:05:33.704Z","description":"Take a look at which companies got bought","url":"https://time.com/3903172/tech-acqusitions/","keywords":["Companies","Tech","deals","Intel","pubdesk"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jack Linshi","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/jack-linshi/"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/companies/","name":"Companies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3903172/tech-acqusitions/","name":"This Chart Shows 10 Major Tech Acquisitions From the Past 15 Years"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Quantum Computing: The Biggest Breakthrough Since the Microprocessor","description":"An animated explanation of superposition, entanglement, and the bizarre properites of computing's next great jump forward","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/PJEZ25lG/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-02-07T23:22:12.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/PJEZ25lG.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3903172/tech-acqusitions/","duration":"PT2M2S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3903172/tech-acqusitions/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```