Intel rumored to be interested in purchasing AMD

Obligatory links:

http://blogs.marketwatch.com/thetell/2013/05/01/amd-surges-as-intel-xbox-talk-surfaces-report/

http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2013/05/01/chart-of-the-day-amd-shares-spike/

http://finance.boston.com/boston/news/read/24080944/amd_soars_on_rumors

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2317294

Is this the beginning of the end for team green? Intel with access to Radeon on their own bleeding edge fabs could be the death knell for nVidia too.

We shall see.

Panda thread, not worth reading.

Panda thread, not worth reading.

kraken2109

Apparently, some people have it out for me because I don't have a clear AMD bias like they do.

Alright Children, do you know what our word of the day is?

It's Anti-trust! Say it with me slowly now....

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Mozuckint

I hope you understand this panda.... if Intel gets AMD the customers aka everyone are screwed04dcarraher

Alright Children, do you know what our word of the day is?

It's Anti-trust! Say it with me slowly now....

Mozuckint

Maybe not. Between the success of ARM and the decline in PC sales Intel would have a relatively compelling argument that there's enough competition in the market and buying AMD wouldn't change anything, particularly with AMD already being largely irrelevant on the CPU side and arguably in a death spiral towards bankruptcy anyway.

That said, this seems like a pretty dumb rumour. The only reason for Intel to buy AMD is to get the GPU side of the business, and with Intel finally starting to deliver on their own GPU development there probably isn't all that much value in buying AMD. 

Apparently, some people have it out for me because I don't have a clear AMD bias like they do.

SolidPandaG

[QUOTE="Mozuckint"]

Alright Children, do you know what our word of the day is?

It's Anti-trust! Say it with me slowly now....

Slow_Show

Maybe not. Between the success of ARM and the decline in PC sales Intel would have a relatively compelling argument that there's enough competition in the market and buying AMD wouldn't change anything, particularly with AMD already being largely irrelevant on the CPU side and arguably in a death spiral towards bankruptcy anyway.

That said, this seems like a pretty dumb rumour. The only reason for Intel to buy AMD is to get the GPU side of the business, and with Intel finally starting to deliver on their own GPU development there probably isn't all that much value in buying AMD. 

as to be Totally False Cause how could it be legal to have a CPU monopoly on Desktop & Laptop Device ? I Suposse they Could have the Legitimate Right to buy the AMD GPU division For Graphic Developement Purpose since Intel is Clearly Still far Behind But  AMD AS A Whole that Sound Terrible It Make it Sound Like as if it where  It like ALL Like Apple / Microsoft/  Google / AMD / would be into IBM palm as if IBM wasn't enough powerful as it is :P

awesome, id love that!!, go intel buy out AMD!!!  Unfortunately though, the prices of cpu's will probably rise.  On the otherhand, the gpu market will be much more healthy, since intel has the resources, they can produce excellent hardware and software, and they aren't afraid to play dirty like nvidia, ie proprietary software.  PhsicsX anyone?

wouldnt this be a monopoly

They can if they want. Intel's competitor is ARM. Glad I dumbed this shitty AMD stock.

the only one whod be screwed over by this sale is nvidia.  Im betting nvidia would fight this possible aquisition to the death.  But, nvidia are betting on ARM to succeed, so in a way they're already competing with intel.  Its more than fair if Intel competes directly with nvidia through the purchase of ATI from AMD.  Not to mention Intel will have access to all of AMD's IP, all their R&D and their best engineers.  Intel has connections with all the game developers, therefore the drivers for AMD cards will be perfection.

wouldnt this be a monopoly

_SKatEDiRt_

While this would be pretty bad for consumers I imagine AMD wouldn't exactly hate the idea.

Any company that buys AMD would be buying Billions of Dollars of Paperweight.

This is not a knock on AMD, but surely it's been discussed to death around the internet to be common knowledge that AMD's X86 license is non-transferrable. AMD's product line would be nothing but paperweight, and The Next Gen consoles would be hit immensly hard.

If you know anything about the HHI, you will see why even just the idea of intel being allowed to buy AMD is 100% absurd.

panda is the stupid

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wouldnt this be a monopoly

soolkiki

it is already a monopoly...Intel has around 80% of the market without even trying to compete.  If AMD were competitive, we would have octa core cpu's selling for $200 with hyper threading from intel, and their past generation cpus selling for $100.  AMD is struggling and shedding jobs like crazy, an intel offer would probably be looked on favorably by a judge

It's not gonna happen.  

 If AMD were competitive, we would have octa core cpu's selling for $200 with hyper threading from intel, and their past generation cpus selling for $100. blaznwiipspman1

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 If AMD were competitive, we would have octa core cpu's selling for $200 with hyper threading from intel, and their past generation cpus selling for $100. LordEC911

My thoughts exactly.  

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 If AMD were competitive, we would have octa core cpu's selling for $200 with hyper threading from intel, and their past generation cpus selling for $100. hartsickdiscipl

My thoughts exactly.  

We have intel octa core cpus selling for $200?  really?

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[QUOTE="blaznwiipspman1"]

 If AMD were competitive, we would have octa core cpu's selling for $200 with hyper threading from intel, and their past generation cpus selling for $100. blaznwiipspman1

My thoughts exactly.  

We have intel octa core cpus selling for $200?  really?

Nobody said that we do.  I just think your analysis is wrong.  

If you know anything about the HHI, you will see why even just the idea of intel being allowed to buy AMD is 100% absurd.GummiRaccoon

Some of us remember the good old days of when AMD manhandled Intel and prices were worse than they are now.

Let's hope it's not happening.

Having a single brand in the market is not good.

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If you know anything about the HHI, you will see why even just the idea of intel being allowed to buy AMD is 100% absurd.Elann2008

You forgot to quote about panda being the stupid.

[QUOTE="04dcarraher"]I hope you understand this panda.... if Intel gets AMD the customers aka everyone are screwedhorgen123

not happening...........

solidpanda thread move along people nothing to see here

Deragotary remarks about my character from petulant posters who cry any time AMD is called out = gold.