Monday, January 31st 2022
Chinese Regulators Approve AMD's $35 Billion Acquisition of Xilinx
Chinese regulators have conditionally approved AMD's $35 billion acquisition of specialty programmable logic device company Xilinx. The purchase had already been approved in every other market so this final approval should allow the deal to quickly progress provided both parties agree to the conditions set out by the Chinese market regulator. These requirements include a commitment to ensuring that Xilinx FPGAs remain compatible with ARM-based processors and products used in the Chinese market. This deal will help make AMD more competitive with Intel which has previously purchased a similar FPGA company with Altera for $16.7 billion in 2015.
Source:
Chinese Market Regulator (via Reuters)
14 Comments on Chinese Regulators Approve AMD's $35 Billion Acquisition of Xilinx
Either AMD got a company double in coin, people and IP, or inflation is just crazy ;)
not that garbage franchise with via.
In the future it will be: In western markets AMD, and in Asia it will be a xilinx CPU or APU. :p
Altera which is now Intel PSG (Programmable Solutions Group) does ~ $500 million/quarter. Xilinx is approaching $1 billion/quarter.
AMD gain footing in markets, they have no presence in. www.xilinx.com/applications.html
Also from what i've read, Xiling have alot of expertise and patents in interconects and packaging, which will likely help AMD in chiplets and 2.5D/3D stacking.
This is two american companies merging ?
I know Xilinix has some interesting video codec IP which could be useful for GPUs, APUs and iGPUs. Their use of Arm cores on various applications could be useful for AMD developing ultra low power processors and heterogeneous processors too... I'm really interested to see what can come out of this partnership.
Quote - "Chinese regulators have conditionally approved AMD's $35 billion acquisition of specialty programmable logic device company Xilinx. The purchase had already been approved in every other market so this final approval should allow the deal to quickly progress provided both parties agree to the conditions set out by the Chinese market regulator."
The key terminologys being what I bolded.
The CCP certainly has something in mind to their advantage and it won't be of any benefit to anyone else, that much I can promise you.
Has anyone heard about the gazillion ZB's of personal & medical data they are collecting on the Olympic athletes ? AND stupidly, the participating countries are putting absolutely ZERO controls in place to let anyone know exactly what they will do with that data :( :( :(