Advanced Micro Devices will acquire server vendor SeaMicro in an attempt to make a run at Intel in the microserver market .
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Advanced Micro Devices will acquire server vendor SeaMicro in an attempt to <m> make a run </m> at Intel in the microserver market .
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Advanced Micro Devices to acquire microserver vendor SeaMicro for $334 million .
To date , SeaMicro has used chips from Intel .
February 29 , 2012 3 : 24 PM PST
Advanced Micro Devices will acquire server vendor SeaMicro in an attempt to <m> make a run </m> at Intel in the microserver market .
AMD said it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire SeaMicro , a company that supplies energy - efficient microservers , for approximately $334 million .
To date , SeaMicro servers have been using Intel's Atom and Xeon processors .
Future plans call for SeaMicro to build servers with AMD's Opteron chips .
"AMD plans to offer the first AMD Opteron processor - based solutions that combine AMD and SeaMicro technology in the second half of 2012 .
The company remains firmly committed to its traditional server business , and will continue to focus and invest in this area , " AMD said in a statement .
SeaMicro's innovations include its supercompute fabric , which connects thousands of processor cores , memory , storage , and input / output traffic .
SeaMicro's fabric supports multiple processor instruction sets .
"SeaMicro was founded to dramatically reduce the power consumed by servers , while increasing compute density and bandwidth , " said Andrew Feldman , SeaMicro CEO , who will become general manager of AMD's newly created Data Center Server Solutions business .