Fortune favors

12 October 2020 By Robert Cyran Follow @rob_cyran

A merger of the two makes sense amid a land-grab over who supplies the growing data center market. The $100 bln AMD could gain share from Intel and Nvidia with Xilinx’s programmable chips. But there are hurdles, including the timing and the would-be buyer’s inflated stock price.

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Advanced Micro Devices is in talks to buy Xilinx in a deal that could be valued at more than $30 billion, according to a Wall Street Journal article on Oct. 8.

Xilinx makes programmable chips that are used in data centers, telecommunication infrastructure and cars, and it had a market capitalization of $26 billion, based on its closing price a few hours before the Wall Street Journal article was published. AMD, a chipmaker that designs central processing units and graphics processing units, had a market capitalization of just over $100 billion on the same date.

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