AMD

Buying Xilinx, a maker of programmable silicon, will take AMD into areas such as automotive and communications networking, while bolstering its offerings in the lucrative market for cloud data center components.

Pitching supercomputing power at a reasonable price.

The cloud provider’s benchmark data compares Ampere’s Arm chips with AMD Rome and Milan and Intel Skylake.

The company has lifted its forecasted 2021 gain from 37 percent to 50 percent.

“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.”

A combination with Xilinx would give AMD more of the pieces needed to break Intel’s stranglehold on the data center market.

Securing data while in use opens doors from the on-prem data center to the cloud for more applications.