Last month, amd revealed its plan to acquire DPU chip maker pensando systems. On Thursday morning, the company confirmed that it had finalized a $1.9 billion acquisition It is reported that pensando systems, led by former Cisco CEO John Chambers, is committed to the network, software defined cloud and computing technology using the company's proprietary DPU It is obvious that the company hopes to actively expand its data related products through the "growth" of the processor.
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phoronix pointed out that pensando's hard work and evolving combination of software stack technology and DPU chip technology have had a great attraction to AMD and its CEO Dr. Su Zifeng.
On the same day, amd announced that it had completed the acquisition of pensando systems at a transaction price of about US $1.9 billion.
Pensando's distributed service platform will expand AMD's data center portfolio through high-performance data processing unit (DPU) and software stack.
These products have been widely deployed in cloud and enterprise customers such as Goldman Sachs, IBM cloud, Microsoft azure and Oracle cloud.
The former pensando team will join the data center solutions group led by Forrest norrod, senior vice president and general manager.
In addition, in the official press release, amd also introduced the achievements of pensando systems and how this acquisition will affect AMD's cloud computing and software stack planning in the next few years.
Over the past two years, pensando engineers and developers have made positive contributions to the open source Linux kernel. After the acquisition, its team members will be able to continue to move forward under the leadership of AMD and get the opportunity to use its new technology in more market fields.
As a start-up, pensando systems has upstream support for adding Linux to the company's hardware. It has also recently developed and deployed a Linux patch for its Elba DPU to seek use within enterprise network switches.
In addition, pensando's Elba SOC is a data processing unit (DPU) focusing on intelligent network switches, while the previous Capri DPU was used for Aruba CX 10000.