Pensando’s distributed services platform is designed to help in accelerating networking, security, storage, and other services for enterprise, cloud, and edge applications
AMD acquires Pensando Systems. (Credit: Raysonho @ Open Grid Scheduler / Grid Engine / Wikipedia.org)
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has wrapped up the previously announced $1.9bn acquisition of distributed services platform provider Pensando Systems.
The deal, which was announced last month, was taken up by the American semiconductor major to expand the capabilities of its data centre solutions unit.
Pensando’s distributed services platform is said to help in expediting networking, security, storage, and other services for enterprise, cloud, and edge applications.
AMD said that Pensando’s platform will broaden its data centre product portfolio with the addition of a high-performance data processing unit (DPU) and software stack.
Both the DPU and software stack are claimed to be already installed at scale across enterprise and cloud customers such as Goldman Sachs, Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, and Oracle Cloud.
Pensando’s team will now work with the AMD Data Center Solutions Group under the leadership of Forrest Norrod, who is AMD’s senior vice president and general manager.
AMD chair and CEO Lisa Su said: “The data centre remains one of the largest growth opportunities for AMD. The addition of the Pensando Systems team with their hardware and software portfolio will enable us to offer cloud, enterprise and edge customers a broader portfolio of leadership compute engines that can be optimised for their specific workloads.
“Pensando’s leadership DPU complements our data centre product portfolio, enabling AMD to offer solutions that can significantly accelerate data transfer speeds while providing additional levels of security and analytics that will play a larger role in defining the performance of next-generation data centres.”
According to AMD, Pensando will continue to focus on executing its product and technology roadmaps. The latter will now have the additional scale to expedite its business and address rising opportunities in the market across a larger number of customers, said AMD.
Earlier this year, AMD closed another acquisition, that of rival US-based semiconductor company Xilinx, for a price of $35bn.