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PC Gamer
James Bentley

The company that invented the AIO cooler has accepted an $85 million buyout offer from a major Chinese electronics group

NZXT Kraken Elite 360 liquid cooler set-up inside a gaming PC.

Asetek, the company that invented the closed-loop liquid cooler for CPUs, has received an offer it can't refuse from CQXA Holdings, a subsidiary of Chinese electronic group Suzhou Chunqi, to fully take over the company.

If successful, CQXA would pay 1.72 Danish Krone (around $0.27) per share to make up a total of 547.4 million Danish Krone ($85 million). When this was announced on November 25, 2025, shares from Asetek were valued at 0.82 Danish Krone, which means this offer represents a 110% increase on the price of shares alone.

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