AMD Won't Compete Against Microprocessor Customers in Servers

When AMD announced the acquisition of SeaMicro, some may have grown concerned that the Sunnyvale, California-based company was aiming for a change in tactics on the server front. 

In other words, server makers have a cause to believe that AMD will start making its own such machines. 

According to X-bit Labs, AMD made a point of assuring everyone that it is not its intention to compete with its customers. 

Instead, the corporation will combine the intellectual property and other resources gained from the buyout with its own portfolio. 

In other words, while it will keep supporting SeaMicro's current customers, its future activities will be more in the way of combining IP and Seamicro fabric with its new processors and platforms. 

“Integration our strong AMD Opteron roadmap with SeaMicro's technology will provide customers with a range of processor choices and platforms,” said Lisa Su, general manager of global business units at AMD, according to the report. 

“Our goal is to leverage SeaMicro IP with our Opteron processor to create industry-leading flexible silicon solutions. [...] When we think about SeaMicro acquisition, this is a technology play for us. [...] It is very much possible to [integrate SeaMicro's fabric technology into AMD processors] and when we look at progression of processor technology, [addition of] fabric would be a natural evolution.” 

Long story short, AMD will keep selling SeaMicro SM10000-XE, SM10000-64HD and SM10000-64 servers and, possibly, build successors based on Opteron CPUs. 

It will not, however, do more than that in terms of developing, building and selling servers under its own brand. 

“We will not compete with our customers. Of course, we will support our current SeaMicro customers as we move forward, but our focus is to combine SeaMicro innovative IP and fabric with AMD's technologies, IP and solutions, which allows us to go-to-market in a very efficient way,” said Rory Read, chief executive officer of AMD, during a special conference call regarding the acquisition of SeaMicro.

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