AMD, one of the world’s leading microprocessor vendors, closed its previously announced US$334m acquisition of SeaMicro, a maker of micro servers.

AMD announced it had completed the deal Friday, saying SeaMicro will now become its Data Center Server Solutions business. The buyer said the unit will target customers that sell into cloud-centric data centers.

Lisa Su, SVP and general manager of global business units at AMD, said the chipmaker’s fabric technology was “one of the crown jewels of the Cloud.”

“The combination of this innovative technology with our processor design expertise greatly enhances our ability to attack the fastest growing portion of the server market with industry-leading low-power, low-cost, high-bandwidth solutions.”

While SeaMicro is a server vendor, the acquisition does not mean AMD will now become one too, John Fruehe, the company’s product marketing director, told DatacenterDynamics earlier this month.

The buyer is primarily interested in SeaMicro’s supercompute fabric that connects many processor cores, memory, storage and I/O. AMD’s plan is to have its OEM partners take to the market platforms based on this technology, Fruehe said.