AMD on Monday stated it plans to accumulate server maker ZT Techniques for $4.9 billion as the corporate seeks to develop its portfolio of synthetic intelligence chips and {hardware} and battle Nvidia.
AMD plans to pay for 75% of the ZT Techniques acquisition with money and the rest in inventory. The corporate had $5.34 billion in money and short-term investments as of the second quarter.
The computing necessities for AI have dictated that tech firms string collectively hundreds of chips in clusters to attain the mandatory quantity of knowledge crunching horsepower. Stringing collectively the huge numbers of chips has meant the make-up of complete server techniques has change into more and more essential, which is why AMD is buying ZT Techniques.
AMD’s shares climbed almost 3% in premarket buying and selling.
“AI techniques are our primary strategic precedence,” AMD CEO Lisa Su stated in an interview with Reuters.
The addition of ZT Techniques engineers will permit AMD to extra rapidly check and roll out its newest AI graphics processing models (GPUs) on the scale cloud computing giants equivalent to Microsoft require, Su stated.
“The primary means (ZT Techniques) is additive to the corporate is we promote extra GPUs,” Su stated.
AMD plans to interrupt off its server manufacturing enterprise and promote it as soon as the deal closes, because it has no plans to compete with firms equivalent to Tremendous Micro Pc, Su stated.
AMD has not but held talks with potential consumers.
ZT Techniques Chief Government Frank Zhang will be part of AMD and report back to AMD’s knowledge middle chief, Forrest Norrod.
The intently held ZT Techniques has roughly 2,500 workers of which AMD plans to retain about 1,000 engineers. At the moment ZT Techniques generates annual income of roughly $10 billion, Su stated.
Executives count on the deal to shut within the first half of 2025 and count on a further 12 to 18 months to promote the manufacturing enterprise.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stated on the firm’s developer convention in March that the one-time chip designer now creates and sells complete knowledge facilities, or the person parts wanted to construct one. This yr analysts count on the corporate to generate $105.9 billion from its knowledge middle section, which incorporates chips and different AI {hardware}.
Su stated final month the corporate expects to gather roughly $4.5 billion price of AI chip income this yr. The corporate’s prospects embrace Microsoft and Meta Platforms.
AMD expects ZT Techniques to contribute to the corporate’s adjusted monetary efficiency by the top of 2025.
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