After CNBC reported that Mellanox is looking for a potential sale on Thursday and that its stock rose 15% within a few hours, Globes reported on Sunday that “Good results and acquisition rumors sent Mellanox's share price soaring 26.3% in two days”. The Globes article quoted Oppenheimer senior analyst Sergey Vastchenok as saying that Mellanox was "an inexpensive company that would immediately add to the acquiring company's profit. Mellanox is very profitable, very technological, and there will be no problem in leveraging the acquisition."

The article went on to name Broadcom, Oracle, Xilinx, VMare and Cisco Networks as potential buyers.