SeaMicro company was formerly known to us by their servers based on Atom processors. The trend even forced Intel to start developing specific Atom processors for server applications.
AMD have the intentions to buy SeaMicro for $ 334 million, including $ 281 million in cash. The first SeaMicro servers based on Opteron processors will be released in the second half this year. SeaMicro clients interests will be served and after the transition of the company under the control of AMD.
Why AMD needed a manufacturer of server solutions? The greatest interest is the development for SeaMicro company is interconnect fabric - an efficient and highly scalable method of interaction of heterogeneous components in server system that uses the interface PCI Express. Apparently, with this development AMD hopes to take advantage of systems-on-Chip, which will be integrated in a single chip heterogeneous functional blocks, including the products of third-party developers . Additionally, AMD plans to increase the efficiency of cores interaction with different architectures in a single system.