AMD Buys out SeaMicro with Plans to Accelerate Disruptive Server Strategy!
SeaMicro has been a leader in the energy efficient, high-bandwidth microservers. The acquisition is going to cost AMD a mere $334 million; roughly $281 million will be paid in cash from the AMD bank account. With the purchase of SeaMicro, AMD plans to accelerate its plans to deliver disruptive server technology to OEM customers which serve the Cloud-centric data centers. With this new acquisition AMD will be uniquely positioning themselves to offer industry leading server building blocks that can be tuned for dynamic web content, social networking, search engines and video hosting. The current plans will bring out the first AMD Opteron/SeaMirco combination of technology later this year during the second half of 2012.
“By acquiring SeaMicro, we are accelerating AMD’s transformation into an agile, disruptive innovator capable of staking a data center leadership position,” said Rory Read, president and CEO, AMD. SeaMicro technologies offer substantial advantages in large data center and Cloud environments. Cloud data centers are projected to be the fastest growing segment of the server market through 2015, according to IDC(1). Current systems featuring SeaMicro technology typically use one quarter the power and take one sixth the space of traditional servers with the same compute performance, yet deliver up to 12 times the bandwidth per core
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