AMD to Acquire ZT Systems for $4.9 Billion

AMD Acquires Taalas to Strengthen AI Inference Silicon Strategy

August 14, 2026

AI & Machine Learning

AMD agreed to acquire Taalas, a Toronto-based developer of specialized AI inference silicon, to strengthen AMD’s full-stack AI roadmap. The deal is intended to improve inference performance and efficiency by integrating Taalas’ inference-optimization technology into AMD’s accelerator roadmap and system-level solutions with AMD Instinct GPUs.

Zscaler Acquires Symmetry Systems

May 24, 2026

Cybersecurity

Zscaler announced plans to acquire Symmetry Systems, an AI security firm focused on identity mapping and data-access visibility for AI agent governance. The technology uses an “access graph” to correlate enterprise access logs across SaaS, cloud, data stores, and AI systems, enabling automated policy enforcement and anomaly detection within Zscaler’s Zero Trust Exchange platform.

Sanmina Completes Acquisition of AMD’s ZT Systems Data Center Manufacturing Business

October 27, 2025

IT Services

Sanmina completed the acquisition of ZT Systems’ data center infrastructure manufacturing business from AMD. The deal expands Sanmina’s scale and end-to-end manufacturing capabilities for Cloud and AI systems and establishes a preferred NPI manufacturing partnership with AMD for AMD’s cloud rack and cluster-scale AI solutions.

Andretti Acquisition Corp. Completes Business Combination with Zapata Computing (Zapata AI)

March 28, 2024

AI & Machine Learning

Zapata Computing, doing business as Zapata AI, completed a business combination with special purpose acquisition company Andretti Acquisition Corp., and the combined company will trade on Nasdaq under the ticker symbols ZPTA (common) and ZPTAW (warrants). The transaction provides Zapata AI with public-market capital and financial flexibility to fuel product innovation, accelerate enterprise customer acquisition, and advance its industrial generative AI growth strategy.

AMD to Acquire Nod.ai to Expand Open-Source AI Software Capabilities

October 10, 2023

AI & Machine Learning

AMD signed a definitive agreement to acquire Nod.ai to expand its open AI software capabilities. Nod.ai’s compiler-based automation technology (including SHARK) is expected to accelerate deployment of AI models optimized for AMD hardware across data center, edge, and client platforms.

AMD Acquires Xilinx for $49 Billion

February 14, 2022

Manufacturing

AMD completed its $49 billion all-stock acquisition of Xilinx, combining AMD’s CPUs and GPUs with Xilinx’s industry-leading FPGAs, adaptive SoCs and software tools. Xilinx stockholders received 1.7234 shares of AMD common stock per Xilinx share; former Xilinx CEO Victor Peng joins AMD as president of the new Adaptive and Embedded Computing Group (AECG).