Qualcomm to buy AMD?

[amdforever2]

With what NVidia Tegra is probably going to do to the tablet market, does anyone see this happening?

 

[ElFenix]

it wouldn't buy the whole thing but might buy the graphics portion.

depending on the cost of processor + graphics that AMD is charging sony, sony might be interested. the question it'd need to answer is whether the x86 license stays intact or not.

other than that, there are very few companies with enough money and enough apparent lack of sense that they'd buy AMD outright.

 

[Agent11]

Would not make sense for AMD to sell their graphics division... If they do they are sunk.

 

[ShadowVVL]

My only question is if another company did buy amd would they have to pay any standing debts that amd has?

If so then it would be equal to buying a hole in the ground.

 

[lothar]

it wouldn't buy the whole thing but might buy the graphics portion.

depending on the cost of processor + graphics that AMD is charging sony, sony might be interested. the question it'd need to answer is whether the x86 license stays intact or not.

other than that, there are very few companies with enough money and enough apparent lack of sense that they'd buy AMD outright.

The only way the x86 license can stay intact is if they do a "reverse" merger of some sort.

 

[meloz]

With what NVidia Tegra is probably going to do to the tablet market, does anyone see this happening?

Er, no.

On surface, Qualcomm have 'weakness' in GPU department, but when you consider the requirements of 90% of the tablet / smartphone segment you realize that more powerful GPU is not going to make a great difference. Winning synthetic benchmarks is one thing, winning the marketshare quiet another.

Qualcomm already own the artist formerly known as AMD Imageon™. Any AMD IP infusion would come with a lot of baggage, it would be more resource effecient for Qualcomm to simply improve Adreno in-house by throwing some cash towards R&D and bolstering existing team.

Reducing the cost of SoC and better software support (in linux kernel) is the future. nvidia ignore these and instead make a lot of noise about their GPU prowess because, well, that's all they got.

 

[ElFenix]

Would not make sense for AMD to sell their graphics division... If they do they are sunk.

if AMD goes belly up that's the only thing really worth anything. it will be sold.