AMD cements its entry in the cloud server business, buying microserver specialist SeaMicro for around $334 million.
SeaMicro builds space- and energy-saving servers by using hundreds of "wimpy cores"-- ultra-low-power processors-- specifically Intel chips, including Atom and Xeon processors. The company will continue making servers using Intel chips (for now) before it transitions towards AMD-based solutions sometime around H2 2012.
AMD also hopes to license SeaMicro "supercompute fabric" technology (the means connecting 1000s of processor cores, Read more...