ATOT could have a 51% in AMD! (We'd hafta quit hotdeals for a while, though.)

[brxndxn]

AMD's market capital is about $2billion with its current share price just below $6.. If we take that times 51% and divide that by 80,000 (rough estimate of the number AT members), then we'd each buy about $13,000 worth of stock. And hell, it's an awesome deal - they say Dresden Fab 30 alone is worth $2.2billion.

But, some members have more to blow (AnandLalShimpi) than others (Rossman). So we could figure out a way to equal everything out. Think about what we could do if we had control of AMD...

- Unlock all the multipliers and only sell processors at their fastest possible speeds
- Remove Palladium support
- Make fun of Intel's overpriced processors in an ad campaign
- Bring back Jerry Sanders as the KFC Colonel
- Pass out engineering samples to shareholders
- Free AMD mugs
- Come up with a new architecture and call it 'Superduperquantiquadrillionmillionspeed Architecture'
- Make fun of the Itanic with corporate backing

There are so many other things we could do with a processor company too. So who's willing?


And, if we're not all willing to pay the price for AMD, we could always join forces with ArsTechnica, Sharky's?, Tomshardware?!...

 

[Jugernot]

Sure, I'm in! I'll take $3.21 cents worth!

 

[murphy55d]

cool idea, however, I do not have $13,000 to spend on stock.

 

[PsychoAndy]

Are you high? Most people here dont have $13 for a subscription, let alone $13,000 for investment.

-PAB

 

[ElFenix]

/elfenix checks pockets

hmmm... what can i git fo' about three-fity?

 

[trmiv]

As long as we promise not to lay off my Mom, I'm in.

 

[transluko]

would you like some corporate scandal with that?

 

[UberDave]

I'll throw a G ur way

....if it will ever be done.

 

[Wingznut]

I'm in!

(EDIT: Oh, wait... Nevermind. )

 

[brxndxn]

Wingznut, is it antitrust if a corporation owns a controlling stake in their only competitor?

 

[Braves]

i'll contribute 100 grand if u find the other cash and make me CEO

 

[Wingznut]

Originally posted by: brxndxn
Wingznut, is it antitrust if a corporation owns a controlling stake in their only competitor?

Heh... Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's covered in the Anti-trust laws.

 

[PsychoAndy]

Originally posted by: Wingznut PEZ

Originally posted by: brxndxn
Wingznut, is it antitrust if a corporation owns a controlling stake in their only competitor?

Heh... Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's covered in the Anti-trust laws.

What about wholly owned subsidiaries, shell corporations, and limited liability off-shore partenerships in the grand caymans?

-PAB <-Knows way too much about screwing with the IRS than I should

 

[Swanny]

Hmmm, I'd be in

 

[CraigRT]

SOLD!
put me down for $20!

 

[T2T III]

I'm in -

However, the bullets that you listed as "our" business plan would have to go. It seems like you ripped a page out of a Dot.Com business plan - that's why so many of them are gone.

 

[spanky]

Originally posted by: murphy55d
cool idea, however, I do not have $13,000 to spend on stock.

ditto

 

[Dark4ng3l]

This sounds like that plan someone had to take over 3dfx after their shares plumeted to 5 cents each or something to stop them from selling out to nvidia.... exept this time it requires 50x more people and like 1.9 billon$ more.....

 

[Aceman]

Originally posted by: PsychoAndy
Are you high? Most people here dont have $13 for a subscription, let alone $13,000 for investment.

-PAB

He speaks the truth!

 

[dman]

Well, if you take the money I woulda made if I had sold AMD when I shoulda sold, I could jump in. <"It can't possibly go any lower."> Wish that was and is true. It isn't. They'll probably do a reverse split soon.

 

[rpc64]

Below $6 eh? Seriously speaking, would it be a good idea to invest in AMD right now?

 

[squirrelman]

Well you do know that when you started trying to buy up 51% of the shares, you would make a ripple and the shares of stock would sky rocket since people would figure out what your trying to do. Hey why dont we get together a Leveraged Buyout and do it that way hehe.