AMD completes purchase of Xilinx

US chip vendor AMD has acquired fellow semiconductor player Xilinx for around $50 billion, in what it describes as the largest ever merger in the sector.
AMD, which primarily produces CPUs for PCS and servers, put in the bid in October 2020 for Xilinx, which has more direct relevance to the telecoms sector. It invented the FPGA (field-programmable gate array) chip which is supposed to have specialised potential in 5G installations, and launched the Zynq RFSoC DFE radio platform, designed for 5G