Intel acquires InfiBand

Intel has entered into a definitive agreement with Qlogic, to acquire product lines and certain assets related to its InfiBand business.

This acquisition is intended to enhance Intel's networking portfolio and provide scalable high- performance computing (HPC) fabric technology, as well as support the company's vision of innovating on fabric architectures to achieve ExaFLOP/s performance by 2018.

''The technology and expertise from QLogic provide important assets to provide the scalable system fabric needed to execute on this vision. Adding QLogic's InfiniBand product line to our networking portfolio will bring increased options and exceptional value to our data center customers,'' said Kirk Skaugen, VP and GM, Intel Data center and Connected System Group.

A significant number of the employees associated with this business are expected to accept offers to join Intel.