Cohu Bags Rival U.S. Chip Tester Xcerra After Chinese Deal Thwarted

Tie-up comes months after Xcerra abandoned a planned sale to a Chinese firm over security hurdles

Semiconductor-testing company Cohu Inc. has agreed to acquire rival Xcerra Corp. in a cash-and-stock deal valued at about $627 million, months after the latter company scrapped a plan to sell itself to a Chinese company over national-security hurdles.

Cohu will pay Xcerra shareholders $9 a share in cash and 0.2109 of Cohu common stock for each share, the companies said in joint news release Tuesday.

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