If Samsung holding the cash bundles more than 60 trillion won (60-70 billion US$) of these have bought an AMD-class semiconductor design skills with a lot of claims that a win-win for both companies.
Deda looks particularly positive attitude toward Samsung's mergers and acquisitions (M & A) There are two companies that enhance the next generation of semiconductor development cooperation is growing even more anticipation for the M & A is. Instead, AMD, Samsung Electronics and TSMC in Taiwan next new production - also comes constantly observed GlobalFoundries will leave the Union.
Industry insiders are paying attention to AMD's semiconductor design skills across the servers in the semiconductor (GPU) for the CPU and graphics. Is that a mobile, as well as the server · IoT, etc. can be a decisive force in the SEC want to diversify our non-memory semiconductor products. Current System LSI Division is organized mainly gotta smart devices, components, such as a mobile application processor (AP) or camera sensor (CIS).
I still see Intel taking a serious look at buying AMD...
American company buying another American company is more likely to happen. Competition in the mobile space is enough of an excuse to get around the X86 monopoly issue. We will see.
Would the company that buys AMD still have x86 licenses? I recall reading that a successor would lose those. So maybe AMD should "buy" Samsung.
Would the company that buys AMD still have x86 licenses? I recall reading that a successor would lose those. So maybe AMD should "buy" Samsung.
What's the motivation? At this point, like it or not, AMD doesn't put enough competitive pressure on Intel to make buying them worthwhile, and AMD doesn't really have enough technology that Intel doesn't, at this point.
Granted, AMD is certainly ahead of Intel when it comes to GPU tech, but not far enough ahead that would be worth purchasing the entire company over. If it is between AMD having to make it on their own or getting swallowed up by Intel, my money is on them going at it alone.
It would be worthwhile for Intel. They are paying nVidia 1.5 Billion plus patents over 6 years to use nVidia's patents.
How would that be worthwhile? 2B$ debt, 2-3B$ buyout, R&D that is hammered into the ground and needs to be restated. some 80-90% of the workforce you need to fire. Contracts and what else with other companies. Whats the ROI on that? 30 years?
Would the company that buys AMD still have x86 licenses? I recall reading that a successor would lose those. So maybe AMD should "buy" Samsung.
Think on what would Samsung want AMD for. List up the reasons. Its not their CPU team. So what else, and would the cost be acceptable.
if anyone bought AMD, they would most likely massacre the company in a salvage operation.
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Why wouldn't Samsung be interested in the CPU teams? Just because they've had a recent catastrophe largely caused by bad leadership, doesn't mean that there isn't still a lot of talent in the team. Surely better to keep the team intact, give them more resources (and potentially new leadership), and set them to work on custom ARM CPUs for Samsung. Remember that Samsung hired away a bunch of dissatisfied AMD engineers to try and build their own server CPU, they clearly value their expertise.
If all they want is people they just need to open an office near AMD HQ and start hiring. They'll have no trouble sucking up plenty of talent. Much cheaper and easier then buying a company.