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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-26-347716"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SMTC"
cik: "0000088941"
company_name: "SEMTECH CORP"
filed_at: "2026-08-13T10:01:11+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-08-13T10:10:26.434350+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Semtech sells cellular module business to Compal for $62M cash

## Summary
- Definitive agreement to sell cellular module business to Compal Electronics (TWSE: 2324) for $62M cash, subject to adjustments.
- Transaction includes substantially all assets, IP, customer relationships, and personnel of the cellular module business.
- Expected to close in Q4 of Semtech's FY2027, pending customary conditions and regulatory approvals.
- CEO Hong Hou says divestiture sharpens focus on data center and LoRa connectivity growth areas.
- UBS Investment Bank and O'Melveny & Myers advised Semtech on the transaction.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-26-347716
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SMTC
- cik: 0000088941
- company_name: SEMTECH CORP
- filed_at: 2026-08-13T10:01:11+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/88941/000119312526347716/0001193125-26-347716-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/88941/000119312526347716/d123711d8k.htm

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