2025-03-31 12:31:00
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It won’t have escaped your notice that in recent years, Nvidia has been transitioning away from being ‘just’ a chip designer into a fully-fledged systems integration company. If you want a massive data centre or a host of AI servers, Nvidia will design and build the whole thing for you. And now it seems AMD is getting in on the action having finalised a near-five billion dollar deal for ZT Systems, a company that designs and makes—yes, you’ve guessed it—data, cloud, and AI centres.
AMD announced its closing of the purchase deal today (via GlobalWire), having first made its intentions publicly known in August of last year. The acquisition, worth $4.9 billion in cash and stocks, will certainly make a bit of a dent in AMD’s financials, but there’s no doubt that it’ll be worth every cent if the AI market continues to grow as expected.
In FY 2024, AMD pulled in revenues of $12.6 billion with its data centre division, accounting for almost 50% of its entire revenue that year. It’s also AMD’s second most profitable sector, with an operating margin of roughly 27%—more than double that of its Client and Gaming sectors.
Nvidia’s data centre division is a veritable money-making machine, pulling in nearly $50 billion in revenue last year, so it’s not hard to see why AMD set about snapping up ZT Systems. The last mega purchase it made was Xilinx for $35 billion, to bolster its embedded sector, so this one is chump change in comparison.
Whether this acquisition pays out, though, is another question altogether, as Nvidia currently dominates the AI server market. Up to now AMD’s only had the hardware on offer, in the form of its gargantuan and very popular Instinct MI300 chips, but now it will be able to provide entire systems and installations.
Anyone who has worked in system building, be it gaming desktop PCs or massive servers, will know that this is where the real profit margins lie (it’s why Nvidia’s profit margins are so big).
More importantly, customers like Apple, Facebook, and the usual AI crowd will be more willing to splash the cash on a complete service rather than having to fiddle about with the hardware themselves.
That said, while the purchase of Xilinx seemed like a great idea at the time and AMD’s embedded sector currently enjoys an enormous operating profit margin of 40%, it’ll likely be many years before that particular acquisition actually pays for itself. I should imagine that AMD will be hoping that buying ZT Systems will bring in more money and quicker, to help offset the decline in Gaming revenue.
Now, I reckon I can scrap together $14.52—maybe even a whole 20 bucks—to acquire something, so AMD better watch out!
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