AMD Completes Acquisition of Silo AI to Accelerate Development and Deployment of AI Models on AMD Hardware
2024年8月12日 - 10:00PM
AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced the completion of its acquisition
of Silo AI, the largest private AI lab in Europe. The all-cash
transaction valued at approximately $665 million furthers the
company’s commitment to deliver end-to-end AI solutions based on
open standards and in strong partnership with the global AI
ecosystem.
Silo AI brings a team of world-class AI scientists and engineers
to AMD experienced in developing cutting-edge AI models, platforms
and solutions for large enterprise customers including Allianz,
Philips, Rolls-Royce and Unilever. Their expertise spans diverse
markets and they have created state-of-the-art open source
multilingual Large Language Models (LLMs) including Poro and Viking
on AMD platforms. The Silo AI team will join the AMD Artificial
Intelligence Group (AIG), led by AMD Senior Vice President Vamsi
Boppana.
“AI is our number one strategic priority, and we continue to
invest in both the talent and software capabilities to support our
growing customer deployments and roadmaps,” said Vamsi Boppana, AMD
senior vice president, AIG. “The Silo AI team has developed
state-of-the-art language models that have been trained at scale on
AMD Instinct accelerators and they have broad experience developing
and integrating AI models to solve critical problems for end
customers. We expect their expertise and software capabilities will
directly improve the experience for customers in delivering the
best performing AI solutions on AMD platforms.”
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high-performance and adaptive products that push the boundaries of
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(AMD) such as the anticipated benefits of AMD’s acquisition of Silo
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predict and generally beyond AMD's control, that could cause actual
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actual results to differ materially from current expectations
include, without limitation, the following: Intel Corporation’s
dominance of the microprocessor market and its aggressive business
practices; Nvidia’s dominance in the graphics processing unit
market and its aggressive business practices; the competitive
markets in which AMD’s products are sold; the cyclical nature of
the semiconductor industry; market conditions of the industries in
which AMD products are sold; AMD's ability to introduce products on
a timely basis with expected features and performance levels; loss
of a significant customer; economic and market uncertainty;
quarterly and seasonal sales patterns; AMD's ability to adequately
protect its technology or other intellectual property; unfavorable
currency exchange rate fluctuations; ability of third party
manufacturers to manufacture AMD's products on a timely basis in
sufficient quantities and using competitive technologies;
availability of essential equipment, materials, substrates or
manufacturing processes; ability to achieve expected manufacturing
yields for AMD’s products; AMD's ability to generate revenue from
its semi-custom SoC products; potential security vulnerabilities;
potential security incidents including IT outages, data loss, data
breaches and cyberattacks; uncertainties involving the ordering and
shipment of AMD’s products; AMD’s reliance on third-party
intellectual property to design and introduce new products; AMD's
reliance on third-party companies for design, manufacture and
supply of motherboards, software, memory and other computer
platform components; AMD's reliance on Microsoft and other software
vendors' support to design and develop software to run on AMD’s
products; AMD’s reliance on third-party distributors and
add-in-board partners; impact of modification or interruption of
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efficiency of AMD's supply chain; AMD's ability to rely on third
party supply-chain logistics functions; AMD’s ability to
effectively control sales of its products on the gray market;
long-term impact of climate change on AMD’s business; impact of
government actions and regulations such as export regulations,
tariffs and trade protection measures; AMD’s ability to realize its
deferred tax assets; potential tax liabilities; current and future
claims and litigation; impact of environmental laws, conflict
minerals related provisions and other laws or regulations; evolving
expectations from governments, investors, customers and other
stakeholders regarding corporate responsibility matters; issues
related to the responsible use of AI; restrictions imposed by
agreements governing AMD’s notes, the guarantee of Xilinx’s notes
and the revolving credit agreement; impact of acquisitions, joint
ventures and/or investments on AMD’s business and AMD’s ability to
integrate acquired businesses; impact of any impairment of the
combined company’s assets; political, legal and economic risks and
natural disasters; future impairments of technology license
purchases; AMD’s ability to attract and retain qualified personnel;
and AMD’s stock price volatility. Investors are urged to review in
detail the risks and uncertainties in AMD’s Securities and Exchange
Commission filings, including but not limited to AMD’s most recent
reports on Forms 10-K and 10-Q.
Contact:Brandi
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