Apple to Acquire Certain Sonera Assets and Hire Staff, EU Filing Shows
On May 8, 2026, Apple notified the European Commission under Article 14 of the Digital Markets Act that it would, through a subsidiary, acquire certain assets of Sonera and offer jobs to and hire certain Sonera employees. The deal value was not disclosed and neither party has announced it; May 8 is the filing date, and no closing date has been made public. The Commission describes Sonera as a company developing chip-scale magnetic sensors. Founded in 2018 in Berkeley, California, as a University of California, Berkeley spinout, Sonera builds acoustically driven ferromagnetic resonance magnetic sensors that operate at room temperature and has raised about $20 million.
