AMD Completes Sea Micro Acquisition in Record Time

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices on Monday said it had completed acquisition of SeaMicro, a low-power server maker, in record time, or less than a month. The pioneer in energy-efficient, high-bandwidth micro-servers cost AMD approximately $334 million, net of cash assumed. AMD believes SeaMicro will help it to boost competitive positions of its servers.

The acquisition of SeaMicro, which will now become AMD's data center server solutions business, enables AMD to accelerate its strategy to deliver disruptive server technology and provide its customers serving cloud-centric data centers with highly-differentiated AMD-based solutions beginning this year.

Although AMD remains tight-lipped about exact plans for integration of SeaMicro’s Freedom supercomputer fabric with up to 1.28Tb/s (160GB/s) transfer speed into its own chip designs, it clearly stated that it bought the micro-server company for its intellectual property and technologies, not in order to make servers itself. AMD hopes that the ultra high-speed transfer fabric will allow it to create ultra-dense server platforms for cloud servers and other power consumption-sensitive applications.

"Our unique fabric technology is truly one of the crown jewels of the cloud. The combination of this innovative technology with our processor design expertise greatly enhances our ability to attack the fastest growing portion of the server market with industry-leading low-power, low-cost, high-bandwidth solutions," said Lisa Su, senior vice president and general manager of global business units at AMD.

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