The world’s biggest semiconductor merger has been completed by AMD

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Now that AMD has acquired Xilinx, the transaction is official.

One of the biggest semiconductor acquisitions in history has been completed by AMD, which took over Xilinx.

An all-stock merger would establish “the industry’s high-performance and adaptive computing leader,” according to the chipmaker, which claims it will provide the newly-expanded business “substantially enlarged scale.”

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US and Chinese authorities had already given their official clearance to the acquisition, so this is welcome news.

In contrast to AMD and Xilinx,

Xilinx purchase “creates the industry’s high-performance and adaptive computing leader,” said AMD President and CEO Dr. Lisa Su in a statement.

With Xilinx’s FPGAs, adaptive SoCs, AI engines as well as AMD’s software expertise, AMD has the ability to offer the strongest portfolio of high-performance and adaptive computing solutions in the industry and capture a larger share of the approximately $135 billion market opportunity that we see across the cloud, edge and intelligent devices.”

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A new Adaptive and Embedded Computing Group will be headed by Xilinx’s former CEO, Victor Peng (AECG).

According to Victor Peng, “the fast proliferation of connected devices and data-intensive applications with embedded AI is driving the rising need for highly efficient and adaptable high-performance computing systems.”

It is our goal to define this new age of computing by delivering the most complete portfolio of adaptable computing platforms that can power a broad variety of intelligent applications by bringing together AMD and Xilinx. “”

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The deal has been in the works for 16 months, with the first announcement coming in October of 2020, and has increased in value in tandem with AMD’s stock price.

Originally estimated at $35bn, the acquisition is expected to be valued at roughly $53bn when everything is said and done.

In contrast to AMD’s CPUs and GPUs, Xilinx is recognised for its Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) (FPGAs). FPGAs, unlike other semiconductors, may be reprogrammed after deployment, making them very adaptable, despite the fact that they are frequently slower than GPUs or CPUs.

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In addition to expanding and improving its operations in data centres, gaming, and PCs, AMD will be able to do so across a wide range of sectors, including communications, automotive and aerospace and military.

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