RampantAndroid
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I thought 2) would have been obvious, but I guess I need to explain it.
1) The investors asking Microsoft to spin off the Xbox division are idiots. There's no such thing as infinite growth, and the sooner every single investor in the world understands this, the better. Infinite opportunity is a possibility, but infinite growth is not.
2) You fire AMD's CPU designers and you hire chip designers from other companies. Money talks. As you've pointed out, AMD's people don't have what it takes. But you need AMD's IP portfolio to get the job done. I never said you needed the people. When they go home the next day, they can explain to their wife that they sucked at their job, and have been doing so for the past 10 years.
Lastly, I'm not talking about a "cash infusion". That could be accomplished by investment. I'm talking about buying AMD.
You fire the designers and then...get them from where? You might get some to come from Apple, Samsung and Intel but I'd again suggest that pissing off partners that you rely on to be a terrible idea. Additionally, the x86 license is in this mess. A return on the investment would take *years*, all from a company that only recently has gotten into PC hardware (yes, I know they made keyboards for years...)? I'm not sure it's just vision, I think there's something to be said for taking something that's working and integrating it (such as PA Semi) versus taking something that's pretty broken (AMD, where they sit today) and trying to integrate it while making it work.
I could marginally see Apple nabbing AMD...but not MS.