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AMD to Acquire Microserver Startup SeaMicro for $334 Million

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Advanced Micro Devices on Wednesday announced a deal to acquire startup SeaMicro, a maker of microservers and data center fabric technology, for $334 million. SeaMicro chief executive Andrew Feldman will become general manager of a newly formed AMD business unit called Data Center Server Solutions.

"SeaMicro's leading-edge fabric technology together with AMD Opteron processors point the way to a compelling roadmap for the cloud data center market," said Lisa Su, senior vice president and general manager of AMD's Global Business Units, in a discussion with reporters at the chip maker's Sunnyvale, Calif. headquarters ahead of the announcement.
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Bulldozers are already really very good in certain server applications, and Piledriver will increase their performance, while Steamroller will push that potentially a lot further. Good to see AMD going after some more profitable segments with a real push and also going for servers/higher margin stuff. If AMD had been more successful in selling server solutions and professional graphics cards they could have been making far larger profits with basically the same chips.

A lot of benchmarks run under linux instead of under windows also seem to suggest that Bulldozer does significantly better in a lot of area's without relying on windows(intel) compilers and programs that simply aren't optimised for Bulldozer(amd chips in general), which is one of the reasons Bulldozer does so much better as a server chip than desktop, other than of course its designed for it :p

Microservers are a small segment of "servers" in general but growing seemingly pretty quickly, it could well be easier for AMD to make headroads into an emerging server market rather than try and claw back market share in established markets, if people then end up happy with their microservers from AMD they may decide to stay with AMD for some bigger and more expensive server's.
 
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