Deals

The deal is similar to another acquisition in the region the company announced in September.

“We view this as a proxy bet on enormous growth of internet and data.”

Inphi makes semiconductor components and optical subsystems for data center and telco networking equipment.

“We’ve built a very strong execution capability... This is about what’s the next step for AMD.”

With Goldman's backing, Scott Peterson’s Global Compute plans to build a global data center platform.

Platform building is a well-known path, but is being part of AMD’s platform better for Xilinx than fleshing out its own already promising one?

The private equity firm will take over the assets, as the telecom carrier focuses on its cloud networking business.