Intel buys QLogic’s InfiniBand assets for $125 million

Intel announced today it has agreed to acquire QLogic’s InfiniBand business for $125 million. The deal is expected to close within the current quarter.

This acquisition is designed to enhance Intel’s networking portfolio and provide scalable high-performance computing fabric technology.

For QLogic the sale of its InfiniBand assets will help it focus on converged networking, Ethernet and storage area networking (SAN) products.

InfiniBand is a switched fabric communications link for data flow between processors and I/O devices used in high-performance computing and enterprise data centers.

Intel says the acquisition supports their vision of innovating on fabric architectures to achieve ExaFLOP/s performance by 2018. An ExaFLOP/s is a quintillion computer operations per second, a hundred times more than today’s fastest supercomputers.

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