#amd pensando

AMD is renowned for being one of the innovators in the chip business and is also involved in operating data centers. As AMD grows, maximizing efficiency and performance for its workloads becomes more significant. AMD has just announced that it intends to acquire chip and data center optimization startup Pensando Systems Inc. Pensando is one of several vendors competing in the emerging data processing unit (DPU) market. Through Pensando's platform, they are able to distribute throughout its network in accelerating multiple infrastructure services more efficiently. Pensando already has large enterprises as customers with the likes of Goldman Sachs, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud. Pensando’s platform has a programmable packet processor that can be distributed throughout a network to efficiently accelerate multiple infrastructure services simultaneously, offloading workloads from the CPU and increasing overall system performance. The acquisition of Pensando by AMD is all in the effort of increasing its share in the data center market and will get AMD into the NPU or IPU market as it goes up against the likes of NVIDIA’s and Intel’s data-center chip packages. Read more in our articles including "AMD is acquiring data center startup Pensando for $1.9 Billion" and "AMD Phenom X4 9950 Benchmark".