Earlier this week, Intel general manager Diane Bryant told Wired that before selling itself to AMD, SeaMicro had approached Intel about an acquisition — and that Intel had turned the company down. Bryant went so far as say Intel “wasn’t even interested” in SeaMicro’s core technology, a server “fabric” that lets the startup connect hundreds of low-power processors within a single server chassis.
But now, in an email to Wired, a SeaMicro representative tells us that the company did not shop itself to Intel. “At no time did a SeaMicro executive, employee, agent, [or] banker approach Intel about selling SeaMicro to them,” the company representative sells.
Intel declined to comment further on the matter.