Latham & Watkins Advises AMD in Acquisition of MK1 to Enhance AI Inference Performance and Efficiency

AMD has announced the finalization of its acquisition of MK1, a company known for its high-speed inference and reasoning-based AI technologies optimized for large-scale deployments. MK1’s Flywheel technology, optimized for AMD hardware, currently serves over 1 trillion tokens a day. The MK1 team will join the AMD Artificial Intelligence Group, contributing to the advancement of AMD’s high-speed inference and enterprise AI software stack. This acquisition is a key milestone in AMD’s strategy to enhance AI performance and efficiency, combining MK1’s software innovation with AMD’s leading compute capabilities.

Latham & Watkins LLP represented AMD in the transaction with a corporate team led by Bay Area partners Mark Bekheit and Tad Freese, with associates Christopher Lim, Daniel Gutmann, Kelsey MacKinnon, and Sabine Dahi. Advice was also provided on tax matters by Bay Area partner Grace M. Lee, with associate Derek Gumm; on executive compensation, employment, and benefits matters by Bay Area partners James Metz and James Robinson, with associate Ellie Graham; on data privacy matters by Houston partner Robert Brown, with associates Stuart Cobb and Sarah Zahedi; and on intellectual property matters by Bay Area partner Anthony Klein, with associates Andrew Abokhair and Saúl Aguirre-Villarreal.