If Nvidia’s $40 billion takeover of ARM should fall through, the $35 billion deal that should allow AMD to get its hands on the world’s number one programmable chip (FPGA) Xilinx, is on track.
Admittedly, these two companies are American, but given the current tensions between the USA and China – the USA has just banned the telephone operator China Unicom from their territory – nothing was completely certain.
The Chinese regulator has some requirements for the deal, but they are minimal: no forced sale of AMD/Xilinx hardware, no discrimination for customers who buy chips from one entity but not the other, and ” maintaining the flexibility and programmability of Xilinx FPGA chips “as well as the maintenance” compatibility with ARM chips “.
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The Chinese voice was very important to the validation of the deal since in Asia, the Chinese FPGA market is not only the largest, but the one that forecasts the strongest growth until 2027. And with a constantly growing FPGA market up to weigh 28 billion dollars on this horizon, the opinion of the Empire of the Middle was critical.
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If the offer closes smoothly – very unlikely since the EU and the USA have already said yes – by the end of the first quarter of 2022, AMD will grow big, with the large portfolio of programmable chips in its catalog. . Far ahead of that of Intel (resulting from the takeover of Altera in 2015 for 16.7 billion dollars).
Source: Reuters