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Guru3D.com » News » AMD China X86 Server Chip Joint Venture Brings them $293 Million In Cash

AMD China X86 Server Chip Joint Venture Brings them $293 Million In Cash

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 04/22/2016 08:19 AM | source: | 11 comment(s)
AMD China X86 Server Chip Joint Venture Brings them $293 Million In Cash

AMD is likely to fab custom enterprise CPUs for the Chinese Government. The deal was mentioned in the latest quarterly results. China, or the Chinese government  struggles to design their own proprietary chips. This deal could fetch AMD USD $293 million in cash.

China wants their “own” hardware and software for government-funded institutions. This was driven by the Snowden revelations and the cooling of the China economy. For software, it means submitting source code to inspect for things like back doors, but also having Chinese institutions buy software from Chinese software vendors.  It’s a bit more complex on the hardware side. Net-net, on the server side it involves Chinese companies integrating core IP from western countries, adding their own “special sauce” like security and accelerators and selling to Chinese server OEMs.  This is exactly what happened with Advanced Micro Devices announcement today of its China JV reports forbes.com

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has created a JV with THATIC (Tianjin Haiguang Advanced Technology Investment Co., Ltd.) to develop SoCs for the Chinese server market. Essentially, AMD will license its x86 processor technology and the IP (intellectual property) related to designing an SoC (system on chip), so I expect this involves IP like memory controllers, input/output and caching, but not GPU technology.
  


Neither THATIC or AMD is commenting on which flavor cores these will be or any more technical details, but Forbes claims it has to be Zen as AMD hasn’t had much of any success in servers with its current CPU cores. 







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fantaskarsef
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#5261638 Posted on: 04/22/2016 10:44 AM
I wonder how the US government will make sure to secure their interests with such deals.

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#5261646 Posted on: 04/22/2016 11:10 AM
GJ AMD! Might prove crucial in 2019.

Be weary though - because there is no exact time frame in which they can expect this 300M.
Heh... cant remember the last time they had good financial dealings news to share :)

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#5261649 Posted on: 04/22/2016 11:11 AM
this also comes with royalties

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#5261650 Posted on: 04/22/2016 11:14 AM
this also comes with royalties


Considering Xbone/PS4 royalties, I can only imagine Chinese royalties!

:funny:

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#5261680 Posted on: 04/22/2016 12:10 PM
Considering Xbone/PS4 royalties, I can only imagine Chinese royalties!

:funny:

hahahahha good one

well given this is server zen i assume it will be higher and wider adoption :)

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/04/amd-promises-three-new-gaming-processors-coming-soon-is-one-for-xbox/

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