A couple of months ago we told you that AMD had made a purchase offer to take over Pensando Systems, a company dedicated to the development of solutions and services for the optimization of data centers that had an important projection in the sector, thanks above all to its DPU (data processing unit) high-performance and extensive software ecosystem, already used by giants of the caliber of Goldman Sachs, IBM Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud.
This operation was pending approval, but the truth is that, from the first moment, we were quite clear that there should be no problem with its completion, and indeed it has been. AMD has confirmed the purchase, and explained that the Thinking team Will Join AMD’s Data Center Solutions Groupwhich at the time of this writing is led by AMD Senior Vice President and General Manager Forrest Norrod.
AMD has also confirmed that the purchase operation it will not affect the route map that Pensando Systems had marked. The company will continue to be focused on its fulfillment, and will have all the support it needs from AMD to meet its objectives. Lisa Su, CEO of AMD, has commented in this regard:
“The data center is still one of the biggest growth opportunities for AMD. Bringing the Pensando Systems team on board with its hardware and software portfolio will allow us to offer cloud, enterprise and edge customers a broader ecosystem of leading compute engines that can be optimized for specific workloads. Pensando’s leading DPU complements our portfolio of data center products, enabling AMD to offer solutions that can significantly accelerate data transfer speeds while providing additional levels of security and analytics, which will play a greater role in defining next-generation data center performance.”
Undoubtedly a very successful purchase by AMD, especially considering the enormous weight that data has in the day to day of almost any company, in the challenges that these pose in all their states (local execution, in transition , in storage, etc), and in the value of having specialized solutions at the hardware and software level. In the end there has been no change in the initial amount, which means that the purchase operation It has been paid for 1,900 million dollars.
