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 revisions are meant to appease exchange operators, who have threatened to move data centers out of state.
The private equity firm will take over the assets, as the telecom carrier focuses on its cloud networking business.
US officials have been lobbying European lawmakers and industry leaders to use Western companies to build data centers.
“The bond market is falling over itself to lend money. This is the time to do it." But “AMD has made debt reduction a core part of its strategy.”
Fears the UK's data center operators would shift their infrastructure abroad because of Brexit are looking unfounded.
A combination with Xilinx would give AMD more of the pieces needed to break Intel’s stranglehold on the data center market.
