AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) has made a significant advancement in its artificial intelligence with the completion of its $4.9B acquisition of ZT Systems. The result of the pairing will be a new class of end-to-end AI solutions and the acceleration of design and deployment of AMD-powered AI infrastructure at scale optimized for the cloud. Additionally, AMD is actively engaged with multiple potential strategic partners to acquire ZT Systems’ U.S.-based data center infrastructure manufacturing business in 2025.
“With the rapid pace of innovation in AI, reducing the end-to-end design and deployment time of cluster-level data center AI systems will be a significant competitive advantage for our customers,” said Forrest Norrod, executive vice president and general manager, Data Center Solutions business unit at AMD.
AMD’s AI solution will be based on the combination of AMD CPU, GPU and networking silicon, open-source AMD ROCm™ software and rack-scale systems capabilities.
“Acquiring ZT Systems is a significant milestone in our AI strategy to deliver leadership training and inferencing solutions that are optimized for our customers’ unique environment, ready-to-deploy at scale, and based on our open ecosystem approach that combines open-source software, industry standard networking technologies and now ZT Systems’ leadership systems design and customer enablement expertise,” Norrod said.
AMD has been involved in high-performance computing, graphics and visualization technologies for more than 50 years.
