Surprise! Amd acquires Xilinx with USD 35billion!

yesterday 27 Evening news on the th ,AMD（ NASDAQ ：AMD） And programmable chips （FPGA） Manufacturer Xilinx （ NASDAQ ：XLNX） announce , The two parties have reached a final agreement ,AMD With a final 350 $billion acquisition of Xilinx ！

Top two in the world FPGA The manufacturers are sailing XLNX and ALTERA, The latter is the second largest in the world FPGA The manufacturer has 2015 year 6 Moon cover Intel Announce to 167 $100 million price acquisition , It's the most expensive acquisition the company has ever made . What's interesting is the time interval 5 After year ,Intel My old friend AMD Announced the acquisition of the world's first FPGA manufacturer XLNX, I'll have what you have ！

AMD Founded on 1969 year , It was founded in Silicon Valley , From the initial dozens of employees , It has developed into a world-famous company with tens of thousands of employees .“AMD Today we are going all out 、 Develop high-performance computing and visualization products , To solve the world's toughest and most interesting challenges .”AMD The website says .

2020 Since then AMD The development is more and more smooth , Impact of novel coronavirus pneumonia , Prompted the use of AMD Chip PC、 Game consoles and other devices ,AMD Its share price has soared 79％, The current market value is 965 Billion dollars , It's delicious ！

Xilinx is headquartered in the United States , The company invented FPGA Microchip , At present, it ranks first in the world , Because of its product programmability and extensibility, it is considered to have a broad prospect .

This transaction between the two parties ,AMD The acquisition of Xilinx did not cost cash , It's all stock trading , This is why the acquisition value can exceed 350 The reason for the billion dollars . The total enterprise value of all the shares after the acquisition is about 1350 Billion dollars . Besides , This transaction can be restructured tax-free , For us federal income tax purposes . therefore , It is conservatively estimated that this transaction will save 3 Billion dollars in costs . After the merger of the two parties , primary AMD Shareholders will hold the new company 74% Equity of , Xilinx shareholders own the rest 26% equity .

AMD and XLNX Reach an agreement , This is the third large sum M & A in the semiconductor industry since this year .7 When the month ,ADI To surpass 200 To acquire Maxus at a price of US $billion ;9 months ,NVIDIA With 400 The company acquired a famous chip design company for us $billion Arm.

The semiconductor industry is changing , After the acquisition of Xilinx AMD What wonderful things can it bring to users ？ Let's wait and see .