As expected, AMD today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Xilinx in a full equity deal. In a press release published by AMD, the acquisition, originally announced on October 27, 2020, “creates an industry leader in high-performance and adaptive computing with greatly expanded scale and the strongest portfolio...
AMD’s acquisition of Xilinx has been fully approved. Yesterday, AMD received the approval of all the regulators involved in the process. The company expects the deal to be closed as early as February 14 or so, which is a few days from now. Recall that the deal was announced in...
The Chinese market regulator has approved a deal that will result in AMD’s acquisition of Xilinx. This approval brings the purchase, which was announced in October 2020, closer to completion. The amount of the deal is $35 billion. China’s State Administration for Market Regulation said in a public notice that...
AMD and Xilinx released a statement this week regarding the regulatory clearance status of AMD’s proposed acquisition of Xilinx. “We continue to seek the necessary regulatory approvals to close our deal. While we previously expected to receive all permits by the end of 2021, we have not yet completed the...
Calling itself a leader in adaptive computing, Xilinx unveiled the Alveo U55C Data Center Accelerator Card and a new standardized API clustering solution for mass FPGA deployment at the SC21 supercomputer conference. The Alveo U55C accelerator is said to “deliver superior performance per unit of power in supercomputing and database...
As you know, in October last year, AMD announced its intention to make the largest purchase in its history – to acquire Xilinx for $ 35 billion. Xilinx is the recognized authority on the Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) market. AMD hopes the deal will create a leading HPC company, taking...
