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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AMD Communications
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AMD Investor Relations
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Source: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Released August 12, 2024
美國超微公司(NASDAQ:AMD)今天宣佈完成對歐洲最大的私人人工智能實驗室Silo AI的收購,該現金交易的價值約爲6650萬美元,這進一步證明公司致力於提供基於開放標準的端到端人工智能解決方案並與全球人工智能生態系統保持強勁合作。
Silo AI將爲AMD帶來一支由世界級人工智能科學家和工程師組成的團隊,他們在爲大型企業客戶(包括安聯、飛利浦、勞斯萊斯和聯合利華)開發先進的人工智能模型、平台和解決方案方面經驗豐富。他們的專業知識涵蓋了多個市場,並在AMD平台上創建了最先進的開源多語言大語言模型(LLMs),包括Poro和Viking。Silo AI團隊將加入AMD人工智能組(AIG),由AMD高級副總裁Vamsi Boppana領導。
「人工智能是我們的首要戰略重點,我們將繼續投資人才和軟件能力,支持我們不斷增長的客戶部署和路線圖,」AMD人工智能組(AIG)的AMD高級副總裁Vamsi Boppana表示。「Silo AI團隊已經開發出了最先進的語言模型,這些模型在AMD Instinct加速器上進行了大規模訓練,他們具有廣泛的開發和集成人工智能模型以解決終端客戶關鍵問題的經驗。我們希望他們的專業知識和軟件能力將直接改善客戶體驗,爲客戶在AMD平台上提供最佳的性能人工智能解決方案。」
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超微半導體(AMD)在高性能計算、圖形和可視化技術方面驅動創新已超過50年,數十億人、領先的財富500強企業和全球尖端科學研究機構每天都依賴於AMD技術來改善他們的生活、工作和遊戲方式。AMD員工專注於構建領導地位的高性能和自適應產品,推動可實現的邊界。有關AMD如何實現今天的啓示和激發明天的更多信息,請訪問AMD(NASDAQ:AMD)網站、博客、LinkedIn和X頁。
聲明
本新聞稿包含有關美國超微公司(AMD)的前瞻性聲明,比如AMD收購Silo AI Oy的預期收益,這些聲明根據1995年《私人證券訴訟改革法》的安全港規定製作。前瞻性聲明通常用諸如「would」、「may」、「expects」、「believes」、「plans」、「intends」、「projects」等具有相似含義的詞語加以識別。投資者應當注意,本新聞稿中的前瞻性聲明是基於當前信仰、假設和期望,僅適用於本新聞稿發表的日期,並涉及風險和不確定性,可能導致實際結果與當前期望存在實質性差異。這些聲明受到某些已知和未知的風險和不確定性的影響,其中許多難以預測且一般超出美國超微公司的控制範圍,可能導致實際結果和未來其他事件與正式的信息和聲明表達的相似或預期的信息和聲明存在實質性差異。可能導致實際結果與當前期望存在實質性差異的重要因素包括但不限於:英特爾(Intel Corporation)在微處理器市場上的主導地位及其激進的商業慣例;英偉達(Nvidia)在圖形處理器市場上的主導地位及其激進的商業慣例;AMD產品銷售所涉及的競爭市場;半導體行業的週期性特性;AMD產品銷售所涉及行業的市場情況;AMD能否及時推出帶有預期功能和性能水平的產品;重大客戶流失;經濟和市場的不確定性;季度和季節性銷售模式;AMD能否充分保護其技術或其他知識產權;不利的貨幣匯率波動;第三方製造商能否及時以足夠數量和使用競爭性技術製造AMD產品;必要設備、材料、襯底或製造過程的可用性;AMD產品預期生產產量是否達到;AMD能否從其半定製SoC產品中產生收入;可能的安全漏洞;可能的安全事件,包括It故障、數據丟失、數據泄露和網絡攻擊;對AMD產品的訂購和發貨的不確定性;AMD依賴於第三方知識產權設計和推出新產品;AMD依賴於第三方公司的母板、軟件、內存等計算機平台組件的設計、製造和供應;AMD依賴於Microsoft等軟件供應商的支持以設計和開發運行在AMD產品上的軟件;AMD依賴於第三方經銷商和插闆闆合作伙伴;對AMD內部業務流程和信息系統進行修改或中斷的影響;AMD產品與某些或所有行業標準軟件和硬件的兼容性;缺陷產品的成本;AMD供應鏈的效率;AMD能否有效控制其產品在灰色市場的銷售;氣候變化對AMD業務的長期影響;政府行動和法規(如出口法規、關稅和貿易保護措施)的影響;AMD能否實現其遞延稅款資產;潛在稅務負債;當前和未來的索賠和訴訟;環境法、衝突礦物質相關規定和其他法規或法規的影響;政府、投資者、客戶和其他利益相關者關於公司責任事項的企望;與AI的負責任使用相關問題;協議限制了AMD的債券、Xilinx的債券擔保和循環信貸協議的限制;收購、合資和/或對AMD業務進行投資的影響和對AMD整合已收購業務的能力;組合公司資產的任何減值的影響;政治、法律和經濟風險和自然災害;技術許可購買的未來減值;AMD能否吸引和留住合格人才;以及AMD的股價波動。投資者被敦促詳細審查AMD的證券交易委員會提交的風險和不確定性,包括但不限於AMD在10-k和10-Q表格上的最新報告。
聯繫方式:
Brandi Martina
通信-半導體
+1 512-705-1720
Brandi.Martina@amd.com
Suresh Bhaskaran
AMD投資者關係
+1 408-749-2845
Suresh.Bhaskaran@amd.com
來源:美國超微公司
2024年8月12日發佈