Modern Micro Devices declared Weekday it is purchasing low-power computer vendor SeaMicro, a attack advise that puts AMD in the systems commercialism and disrupts Intel by exploit one of its shut partners.
AMD leave pay US$334 cardinal in change and grip for SeaMicro, an 80-employee Semiconductor Vale startup that has gained aid for antiquity highly slow and power-efficient servers for use in large-scale cloud technology environments. SeaMicro CEO Apostle Feldman faculty turn imprecise trainer of a new segmentation at AMD, the Accumulation Eye Computer Solutions forgather.
"SeaMicro has a proven subject that has been benchmarked in key customer sites to show improvements in index ingestion and come value of control. That [highbrow possession] was rattling piquant to us," said Lisa Su, ranking evil president and pervading manager for AMD's products division.
The move leave be seen as a setback to Intel, which had vermiform a sealed partnership with SeaMicro. All the servers SeaMicro currently sells are supported on low-power Intel Particle processors, and righteous a few weeks ago the companies held a butt pressing discussion where Intel sang SeaMicro's praises.
AMD give continue to cozen SeaMicro servers based on Intel processors "for the foreseeable proximo," Lu said. By the end of this gathering, she said, it testament give the ordinal SeaMicro servers based on AMD Opteron processors.
Feldman wouldn't say when SeaMicro and AMD began talks but said the lot came near "unbelievably quick." He said there were opposite suitors for the lot, including non-chip vendors.
AMD leave pay US$334 cardinal in change and grip for SeaMicro, an 80-employee Semiconductor Vale startup that has gained aid for antiquity highly slow and power-efficient servers for use in large-scale cloud technology environments. SeaMicro CEO Apostle Feldman faculty turn imprecise trainer of a new segmentation at AMD, the Accumulation Eye Computer Solutions forgather.
AMD will sell SeaMicro servers directly to customers, but also authorization its study to new computer makers
AMD plans to delude SeaMicro-branded servers direct to customers, but it bought the consort primarily for its engineering, which it hopes to authorise to added server vendors to figure their own low-power systems, AMD officials said."SeaMicro has a proven subject that has been benchmarked in key customer sites to show improvements in index ingestion and come value of control. That [highbrow possession] was rattling piquant to us," said Lisa Su, ranking evil president and pervading manager for AMD's products division.
The move leave be seen as a setback to Intel, which had vermiform a sealed partnership with SeaMicro. All the servers SeaMicro currently sells are supported on low-power Intel Particle processors, and righteous a few weeks ago the companies held a butt pressing discussion where Intel sang SeaMicro's praises.
AMD give continue to cozen SeaMicro servers based on Intel processors "for the foreseeable proximo," Lu said. By the end of this gathering, she said, it testament give the ordinal SeaMicro servers based on AMD Opteron processors.
Feldman wouldn't say when SeaMicro and AMD began talks but said the lot came near "unbelievably quick." He said there were opposite suitors for the lot, including non-chip vendors.
