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qualcomm wants to buy Intel
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NY Times story (paywall removed) on the same thing:
www.nytimes.com
Qualcomm Asked Chip Rival Intel if It Would Consider a Sale
While Intel has struggled in recent years, other chipmakers are thriving because of a boom in demand.
The initial reports said Qualcomm only wanted the client business ... but it seems their ambitions have increased?
It's not clear from the Verge/NYT exactly which parts Qualcomm asked Intel about and Qualcomm hasn't yet made a formal offer. That even an initial query has been made at all is simply incredible. Even beyond Intel's willingness to sell, the NYT article points out that regulators would be unlikely to simply rubber stamp such an acquisition.
So this seems incredibly unlikely to be accepted and even the report says there isn’t an actual offer, but the fact that Qualcomm is reportedly even considering making an offer is amazing:
Qualcomm reportedly explores buying portions of Intel's PC client business
Qualcomm could be Intel's way out of its financial problems.www.tomshardware.com
It's not clear from the Verge/NYT exactly which parts Qualcomm asked Intel about and Qualcomm hasn't yet made a formal offer. That even an initial query has been made at all is simply incredible. Even beyond Intel's willingness to sell, the NYT article points out that regulators would be unlikely to simply rubber stamp such an acquisition.
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On the one hand, I feel like I should be gloating. On the other hand, my friends at AMD have to understand they aren’t that far behind Intel here.
I know Broadcom tried to buy Qualcomm about 6 years ago.
Bloomberg reporting that ARM also approached Intel to buy their product division:
www.tomshardware.com
Anton expresses a healthy amount of skepticism that ARM did this and even more that it would’ve gone though even if Intel had accepted.
Questionable report claims Arm approached Intel to buy products group and got rejected
ArmIntel? IntelArm? InArm?
Anton expresses a healthy amount of skepticism that ARM did this and even more that it would’ve gone though even if Intel had accepted.
Qualcomm is apparently still interested in buying Intel’s client division but is waiting until after the election to make any formal offers (presumably because they know the Biden administration’s FTC is much more aggressively anti-merger than Trump’s would likely be and Harris’ would probably be more similar to Biden’s). Truthfully though so many regulators would have to approve that this seems hard even if the US suddenly became complacent - never mind Intel’s reaction (hostile take overs are a good deal more expensive). Qualcomm would of course know this given their own history of (correctly imo) opposing Nvidia’s takeover of ARM. Just seems very unlikely.
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Would such a purchase actually reduce competition?
New rumour alleges Samsung and Apple are looking to acquire Intel
Moore's Law is Dead has heard from sources that Samsung and Apple are looking to acquire Intel. Both companies are allegedly after Intel's foundry business, which would give them unfiltered access to cutting-edge nodes from Intel.
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Huh …
Indeed
Hmmm …
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Yeah. No.New rumour alleges Samsung and Apple are looking to acquire Intel
Moore's Law is Dead has heard from sources that Samsung and Apple are looking to acquire Intel. Both companies are allegedly after Intel's foundry business, which would give them unfiltered access to cutting-edge nodes from Intel.
Huh …
Indeed
Hmmm …
Maybe not?
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