AMD to Purchase DPU Chip Startup Pensando for $1.9 Billion

[Peter_Brosdahl]

AMD plans to purchase data processing unit (DPU) startup Pensando for $1.9 billion. The California-based company is known for its fully programmable platform. Its customers include Goldman Sachs, IBM Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud. Pensando was formed in 2017 by former Cisco engineers.

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[Grimlakin]

Seems like this is AMD wanting to get in on those 200gb connectors that Nvidia makes and offer a data center competitive product.