AMD takes up hosting server start-up SeaMicro for $330 thousand, says it's no behavioral instinct buy

today declared it has finalized a specified agreement to acquire SeaMicro, a boss in energy-efficient, high-bandwidth microservers, for $334 thousand, of which somewhere around $281 thousand will be paid in money. Through the getting SeaMicro, AMD will be increasing its strategy to produce troublesome hosting server technological innovation to its OEM clients offering cloud-centric information facilities. With SeaMicro's material technological innovation and system-level design abilities, AMD will be exclusively located to provide industry-leading hosting server prevents updated for the fastest-growing workloads such as energetic web content, social media, search and video. 

AMD's hosting server technological innovation in addition to SeaMicro technological innovation provides clients with a range of brand choices and systems that can help significantly decrease information middle complexness, cost and power consumption while improving efficiency. AMD programs to provide the first AMD Opteron™ processor-based alternatives that incorporate AMD and SeaMicro technological innovation in the second half of 2012. The company remains strongly dedicated to its conventional hosting server business, and will keep focus and invest in this area.

"By acquiring SeaMicro, we are increasing AMD's modification into an nimble, troublesome boss capable of staking a information middle authority location," said Rory Read, chief executive and CEO, AMD. "SeaMicro is a boss in low-power hosting server technological innovation. The unrivaled collaboration of AMD's handling abilities, SeaMicro's program and material technological innovation, and our ambidextrous technological innovation approach exclusively roles AMD with a gripping, separated location to attack the quickest increasing section of the hosting server industry." 

SeaMicro technological innovation provide considerable advantages in large information middle and reasoning conditions. Impair information facilities are forecasted to be the quickest increasing section of the hosting server industry through 2015, according to IDC1. 

Current systems presenting SeaMicro technological innovation typically use one quarter the strength and take one 6th the space of conventional hosts with the same figure out efficiency, yet produce up to 12 times the bandwith per core2.

Foremost among SeaMicro's enhancements is their supercompute material, which attaches thousands of brand cores, memory, storage and input/output traffic. SeaMicro's material can handle several brand teaching sets. SeaMicro alternatives are currently implemented in several sites across the world. AMD will keep support all present SeaMicro clients while increasing programs to produce new systems that incorporate AMD and SeaMicro technological innovation and enable AMD's OEM lovers to bring separated alternatives to promote.

"Cloud handling has brought a sea modify to the information center--dramatically changing the overall costs of figure out by changing the amount of work and maximum features of a hosting server," said Tim Feldman, SeaMicro CEO, who will become gm of AMD's recently created Data Center Server Solutions business. "SeaMicro was established to considerably decrease the strength absorbed by hosts, while increasing figure out solidity and bandwith. By becoming a part of AMD, we will have access to new markets, resources, technological innovation, and scale that will provide us with the opportunity to work snugly with our OEM lovers as we generally modify the hosting server industry."

The purchase does not modify AMD's 2012 financial assistance and the purchase is expected to be accretive to income after 2012. AMD will finance the money portion of the purchase with current money stocks.