1.   

On 26 May 2021, the Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (1).

This notification concerns the following undertakings:

—	Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (‘AMD’, United States),

—	Xilinx, Inc. (‘Xilinx’, United States).

AMD acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation sole control of the whole of Xilinx.

The concentration is accomplished by way of a merger between Throne Merger Sub, Inc., an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of AMD, and Xilinx. Xilinx will survive the merger as a wholly owned indirect subsidiary of AMD.

2.   

The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

—	for AMD: AMD is a publicly listed global semiconductor company. AMD is active primarily in the supply of central processing units (‘CPUs’), based on the x86 instruction set, and graphics processing units (‘GPUs’);

—	for Xilinx: Xilinx is a publicly listed global semiconductor company. Xilinx is active in the supply of field programmable gate arrays (‘FPGAs’), a chip that customers can program after fabrication to perform desired logic functions.

3.   

On preliminary examination, the Commission finds that the notified transaction could fall within the scope of the Merger Regulation. However, the final decision on this point is reserved.

4.   

The Commission invites interested third parties to submit their possible observations on the proposed operation to the Commission.

Observations must reach the Commission not later than 10 days following the date of this publication. The following reference should always be specified:

M.10097 – AMD/Xilinx

Observations can be sent to the Commission by email, by fax, or by post. Please use the contact details below:

Email: COMP-MERGER-REGISTRY@ec.europa.eu

Fax +32 22964301

Postal address:

European Commission

Directorate-General for Competition

Merger Registry

1049 Bruxelles/Brussel

BELGIQUE/BELGIË