Prior notification of a concentration (Case M.12083 – SANMINA / ZT) – Candidate case for simplified procedure
Date: 2025-09-15
Institutions: Directorate-General for Competition, European Commission
Subjects: after-sales service, cloud computing, computer centre, economic concentration, electronics, logistics, maintenance, merger control, network server, provision of services








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Official Journal of the European Union


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C/2025/5041


15.9.2025






Prior notification of a concentration
(Case M.12083 – SANMINA / ZT)
Candidate case for simplified procedure
(Text with EEA relevance)
(C/2025/5041)


1.   
On 8 September 2025, the Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (1).
This notification concerns the following undertakings:






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Sanmina Corporation (‘Sanmina’, United States),










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ZT Group Int.’l (‘ZT’, United States), controlled by Advanced Micro Devices (‘AMD’, United States). Following a recent restructuring, the server design business and related services of ZT have been transferred to AMD, while ZT retains its server manufacturing business.




Sanmina will acquire within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation sole control of ZT.
The concentration is accomplished by way of purchase of shares.


2.   
The business activities of the undertakings concerned are the following:






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Sanmina is a global provider of integrated manufacturing solutions, components, products and repair, logistics and after-market services in the electronics industry, primarily for industrial, medical, defense and aerospace, automotive, communications networks and cloud infrastructure applications,










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ZT is a provider of purpose-built server solutions for data centres, in particular cloud service providers.






3.   
On preliminary examination, the Commission finds that the notified transaction could fall within the scope of the Merger Regulation. However, the final decision on this point is reserved.
Pursuant to the Commission Notice on a simplified treatment for certain concentrations under Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 on the control of concentrations between undertakings (2) it should be noted that this case is a candidate for treatment under the procedure set out in the Notice.


4.   
The Commission invites interested third parties to submit their possible observations on the proposed concentration to the Commission.
Observations must reach the Commission not later than 10 days following the date of this publication. The following reference should always be specified:
M.12083 – SANMINA / ZT
Observations can be sent to the Commission by email or by post. Please use the contact details below:
Email: COMP-MERGER-REGISTRY@ec.europa.eu

Postal address:





European Commission




Directorate-General for Competition




Merger Registry




1049 Bruxelles/Brussel




BELGIQUE/BELGIË







(1)  
            OJ L 24, 29.1.2004, p. 1 (the ‘Merger Regulation’).

(2)  
            OJ C 160, 5.5.2023, p. 1.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/5041/oj
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