SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 12, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- 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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This press release contains forward-looking statements concerning Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) such as the anticipated benefits of AMD's acquisition of Silo AI Oy, which are made pursuant to the Safe Harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are commonly identified by words such as "would," "may," "expects," "believes," "plans," "intends," "projects" and other terms with similar meaning. Investors are cautioned that the forward-looking statements in this press release are based on current beliefs, assumptions and expectations, speak only as of the date of this press release and involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from current expectations. Such statements are subject to certain known and unknown risks and uncertainties, many of which are difficult to predict and generally beyond AMD's control, that could cause actual results and other future events to differ materially from those expressed in, or implied or projected by, the forward-looking information and statements. Material factors that could cause 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 AMD's internal business processes and information systems; compatibility of AMD's products with some or all industry-standard software and hardware; costs related to defective products; 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.
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Source: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Released August 12, 2024
美国超微公司(NASDAQ:AMD)今天宣布完成对欧洲最大的私人人工智能实验室Silo AI的收购,该现金交易的价值约为6650万美元,这进一步证明公司致力于提供基于开放标准的端到端人工智能解决方案并与全球人工智能生态系统保持强劲合作。
Silo AI将为AMD带来一支由世界级人工智能科学家和工程师组成的团队,他们在为大型企业客户(包括安联、飞利浦、劳斯莱斯和联合利华)开发先进的人工智能模型、平台和解决方案方面经验丰富。他们的专业知识涵盖了多个市场,并在AMD平台上创建了最先进的开源多语言大语言模型(LLMs),包括Poro和Viking。Silo AI团队将加入AMD人工智能组(AIG),由AMD高级副总裁Vamsi Boppana领导。
“人工智能是我们的首要战略重点,我们将继续投资人才和软件能力,支持我们不断增长的客户部署和路线图,”AMD人工智能组(AIG)的AMD高级副总裁Vamsi Boppana表示。“Silo AI团队已经开发出了最先进的语言模型,这些模型在AMD Instinct加速器上进行了大规模训练,他们具有广泛的开发和集成人工智能模型以解决终端客户关键问题的经验。我们希望他们的专业知识和软件能力将直接改善客户体验,为客户在AMD平台上提供最佳的性能人工智能解决方案。”
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联系方式:
Brandi Martina
通信-半导体
+1 512-705-1720
Brandi.Martina@amd.com
Suresh Bhaskaran
AMD投资者关系
+1 408-749-2845
Suresh.Bhaskaran@amd.com
来源:美国超微公司
2024年8月12日发布