The acquisition of ARM by NVIDIA has not left anyone indifferent, being a major threat to Intel and AMD. It seems that AMD is not going to wait and wants to respond quite forcefully. According to the Wall Street Journal, the company wants to take over Xilinx, a major company in the FPGA market and thus be able to compete with Intel in this lucrative market.
For those who do not know what an FPGA is, we could say that it is a programmable processor. FPGAs are basically based on block programmable logic gates with interconnection and functionality that can be configured as needed. This is done using a very specific programming language and they are very versatile chips.
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AMD wants to buy FPGA maker Xilinx
According to the US media, there are "advanced talks" between both parties and the details are being specified. Xilinx manufactures FPGAs of different sizes, including the well-known Virtex Ultra Scale +, a 4.4 million logic cell FPGA. This FPGA from Xilinx is the biggest competitor to the Intel Stratix 10, to give us an idea.
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) is in advanced talks to buy rival chipmaker Xilinx Inc., according to people familiar with the matter, it's a deal that could be valued at more than $ 30.000 billion and mark the last big tie. in the fast consolidating semiconductor industry.
Wall Street Journal
Xilinx currently has a valuation of $ 26.000 billion. AMD's acquisition of Xilinx could be closed for an amount close to $ 30.000 billion. It would thus be the second largest technology acquisition of the year after the acquisition of ARM by NVIDIA, which closed at 40.000 million dollars.
This operation would expand AMD's Intellectual Property portfolio, with a new set of computing chips. X86 and ARM CPU licenses, scalable GPU-based computing processors, semi-customizable SoCs, low-power multimedia processors and FPGAs would be added.
[irp]Source: WSJ
