http://www.pcworld.com/article/251015/amd_buys_seamicro_enters_server_hardware_business.html
That's somewhat of a surprising move for AMD.
That's somewhat of a surprising move for AMD.
AMD will pay US$334 million in cash and stock for SeaMicro, a 40-employee Silicon Valley startup that has gained attention for building highly dense and power-efficient servers for use in large-scale cloud computing environments. SeaMicro CEO Andrew Feldman will become general manager of a new division at AMD, the Data Center Server Solutions group.
AMD plans to sell SeaMicro-branded servers directly to customers, but it bought the company primarily for its technology, which it hopes to license to other server vendors to build their own low-power systems, AMD officials said.
"SeaMicro has a proven technology that has been benchmarked in key customer sites to show improvements in power consumption and total cost of ownership. That [intellectual property] was very attractive to us," said Lisa Su, senior vice president and general manager for AMD's products division.
The move will be seen as a setback to Intel, which had built a tight partnership with SeaMicro. All the servers SeaMicro currently sells are based on low-power Intel Atom processors, and just a few weeks ago the companies held a joint press conference where Intel sang SeaMicro's praises.
An Intel spokesman declined to comment on the acquisition Wednesday before it was officially announced.
AMD will continue to sell SeaMicro servers based on Intel processors "for the foreseeable future," Lu said. By the end of this year, she said, it will release the first SeaMicro servers based on AMD Opteron processors.
AMD will continue to sell SeaMicro servers based on Intel processors...
Interesting :hmm:
Brazos 2.0 servers incoming?
SeaMicro developed an interconnect technology that allows it to eliminate all but three of the chips on a standard server motherboard. That allowed it to develop servers that it claims consume one quarter the power and one sixth the space of standard x86 servers.
SeaMicro invented and patented technology called CPU I/O virtualization, which dramatically reduces the power draw of the
non-CPU portion of a server by eliminating 90 percent of the
components from the motherboard. CPU I/O virtualization
allows SeaMicro to shrink the mother board to the size of a credit card thereby enabling hundreds of more power efficient CPUs
to replace traditional power hungry multi-core processors.
SeaMicro invented technology that combines CPU management
and load balancing, allowing us to dynamically allocate workloads to specific CPUs on the basis of power-usage metrics. This
ensures that the active CPUs operate in the most energy efficient
range of utilization. In addition it allows the user to create pools
of CPUs for a given application and can then dynamically add
compute resources to the pool based on predefined utilization
thresholds.
AMD's low-power APUs have more horsepower than Atom, and have on-die GPUs that could add even more processing power into the mix.
paying for a server company just to get their chips into servers. Desperation move.
They're just doing what has been working for Intel.
What server vendor does Intel own?
What server vendor does Intel own?
*taps the pond*AMD will be selling Intel atom chips. Is it me or is hell freezing over?
Well, I do not know about servers, but Intel has been making motherboards for long time.
I have never heard of AMD branded motherboards.
(SeaMicro's) founder and chief technology officer Gary Lauterbach, who was previously an AMD fellow and one of five architects who build the core of AMDs Opteron processor
AMD
You can check out any time you like
But you can never leave
281m$ for a 40 employees firm ?...
The stocks , i dont count them , that s at the expense
of the other share holders , they will surely appreciate....