AMD Enters Server Business With Bold Acquisition: Chip designer and chief Intel rival AMD has signed an agreement to acquire SeaMicro, a Silicon Valley startup that seeks to save power and space by building servers from hundreds of low-power processors. With the purchase, AMD will not only turned itself into a server maker. It will turn itself into a server maker that uses chips from Intel. Today, SeaMicro's servers are built with chips from AMD's biggest rival, including Intel's Atom mobile processors as well as Intel Xeon chips.
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