Chinese Regulators Approve AMD's $35 Billion Acquisition of Xilinx

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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.



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[Fluffmeister]

The CCP want the backdoor access to AMD products too and this deal allows them to cover both sides of the American duolopy.

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

The CCP want the backdoor access to AMD products too and this deal allows them to cover both sides of the American duolopy.

This is my thought too. I wonder if this kind of thing will become a trend to bypass USGovs 'lets ban chinese companies are really spying on us' agenda.

 

[mechtech]

"Intel which has previously purchased a similar FPGA company with Altera for $16.7 billion in 2015."

Either AMD got a company double in coin, people and IP, or inflation is just crazy

 

[seth1911]

Na AMD would not handle that deal cause Intel and in the future xilinx will go back to china and now with x86 ,
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.

 

[AlwaysHope]

Miles Guo - Take Down The CCP

 

[BArms]

Get out of China, AMD, the CCP is a poison pill.

 

[Makaveli]

The CCP want the backdoor access to AMD products too and this deal allows them to cover both sides of the American duolopy.

The way you said that and your display profile pic makes this a 10/10 post lol.

 

[Nordic]

"Intel which has previously purchased a similar FPGA company with Altera for $16.7 billion in 2015."

Either AMD got a company double in coin, people and IP, or inflation is just crazy

Inflation isn't a flat measurement. With the amount of demand for chips right now, double the value from 2015 seems not too far off.

 

[z1n0x]

"Intel which has previously purchased a similar FPGA company with Altera for $16.7 billion in 2015."

Either AMD got a company double in coin, people and IP, or inflation is just crazy

There are some differences. Intel paid for Altera in all-cash, while AMD is paying for Xiling in all-stock.
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. https://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.

 

[Imsochobo]

The CCP want the backdoor access to AMD products too and this deal allows them to cover both sides of the American duolopy.

what ?

This is two american companies merging ?

 

[AnarchoPrimitiv]

It would be cool if this eventually sees AMD releasing SoCs with FPGAs and purpose built chiplets packaged along with a CPU that can allow the purpose built chiplet to handle tasks that would otherwise be handled by the CPU, but perform them faster.

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.

 

[Bones]

From the opening post:
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.

 

[bonehead123]

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.

Of this we can be 10000% certain, they will do anything & everything they can to gain ANY advantage on ANY competitor ANYWHERE, legal, moral, or otherwise....including even moar ways to engineer, reverse-engineer, flat out copy and infiltrate other company's IP/research/designs......

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

 

[Mistral]

This is two american companies merging ?

Which makes you ask WTH should anyone care what the CCP has to say in the matter, but that "lucrative" Chinese market...