元器件交易网讯  5月6日消息，据外媒报道，AMD周一称，它已经购买了ARM的架构技术授权，并计划今年推出基于ARM技术的低功耗服务器芯片。

　　芯片制造商AMD已经扩大了与英国ARM授权技术协议，作为美国公司在个人电脑行业发展疲软之际，寻求外部增长的一个策略。

　　这项协议为AMD提供了一个更大的空间来定制其芯片架构，区分其他基于ARM技术的产品。

　　AMD计划今年推出基于ARM技术的低功耗服务器芯片，与英特尔的竞争高端Xeon处理器竞争。这些芯片在之前的协议将使用ARM现成的技术授权。

　　ARM的低功率技术广泛应用于智能手机和平板。

　　AMD公司高级副总裁Lisa Su在新闻发布会上说，“我们在开发自己ARM核心上进行的很顺利。”

　　随着消费者转向平板电脑和智能手机，PC出货量连续八个季度下降，AMD 2015年一半的收入将来自新的快速增长的业务比如游戏控制器和微服务器。

　　AMD还计划进一步拓展到其他市场的芯片制造上，包括工业设备和医疗设备。

　　在周一的发布会上，AMD高管反复强调，AMD结合ARM和x86技术创建芯片的能力是独特的，个人电脑架构历来用于与英特尔竞争。

　　微服务器尚未被广泛应用于数据中心，其倡导者称，由几个低功耗芯片组成的服务器架构在购买和管理上可能比英特尔高端芯片服务器架构投资更少。

　　AMD也向微软和索尼游戏操控器提供处理器。

　　强劲的Playstation 4的销量，使得AMD第一季度收入超过预期，但是公司尚未让投资者相信它将转变业务。汤森路透(Thomson Reuters)调查的21个分析师中只有6个推荐购买AMD股票，其余的人对股票保持中立或消极态度。

　　（元器件交易网董蕾 译）

　　外媒原文如下：

　　Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices has expanded its licensing technology agreement with Britain's ARM Holdings as the U.S. company seeks growth outside the slowing personal computer industry.

　　AMD said on Monday it has acquired an architectural license from ARM, the Cambridge, England-based company. ARM's low-power technology is widely used in smartphones and tablets and is also behind an upcoming crop of energy-efficient server chips.

　　The new license provides more room for AMD to customize its chip architecture and differentiate its products from others based on ARM technology.

　　The Sunnyvale, California, company is planning this year to launch low-power server chips based on ARM technology to compete in data centers against Intel Corp's high-end Xeon processors. Those chips will use off-the-shelf technology licensed from ARM in a previous agreement.

　　"We're well on our way to developing our own ARM cores," AMD Senior Vice President Lisa Su said at a news conference.

　　With PC shipments falling for eight straight quarters as consumers shift toward tablets and smartphones, AMD aims to get half of its revenue from new, fast-growing businesses such as game consoles and microservers by the end of 2015.

　　AMD also plans to expand further into making chips for other markets, including industrial equipment and medical devices.

　　At the event on Monday, executives repeatedly described AMD as unique in its ability to create chips using technology combining ARM and x86, the personal computer architecture it has historically used to compete against Intel Corp.

　　Proponents of microservers, which have yet to be widely implemented in data centers, say that servers built with several low-power chips can be less expensive to buy and manage than servers built with Intel's high-powered chips.

　　AMD is also supplying processors for Microsoft Corp and Sony Corp's latest game consoles.

　　Strong Playstation 4 sales helped AMD beat expectations in the March quarter but the company has yet to convince investors it can transform its business. Twenty-one analysts tracked by Thomson Reuters rate AMD's stock as neutral or negative, while just six recommend buying it.