Qualcomm Reportedly Taps Intel With An Acquisition Offer

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• independantiste@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  There are so many reasons why this won’t happen lmao

  Qualcomm has about 70% of Intel’s revenue, and their valuation is only twice as much as Intels. There is no way they could get a loan equivalent to half of their net worth to acquire intel, a company that is having some financial difficulties. Then there are regulators that will very likely block this acquisition. But this rumor made the Intel stock price go up and I made money, so keep the rumors coming!

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  • hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They don’t mention what the offer is. Very easily could be a stock-based deal where Intel stockholders get a portion of the combined company. That’s how T-Mobile bought Sprint.

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  • sunbeam60@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Who says loan? You could get a bunch of PE involved; they love a smashing together of entities to “create synergies” and “increase pricing power”.

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• avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  No no no

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  • GreenEngineering3475@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Don’t worry, this is never going to get regulatory approval.

    Qualcomm wasn’t allowed to buy ARM, no way it gets to buy Intel.

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    • hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I don’t recall Qualcomm trying to buy ARM. That was Nvidia. (though, yes, it likely would also have been prevented if it had tried)

      But they’d probably have a better (but still slim) chance of getting a purchase of Intel through. That’d be a more horizontal acquisition than a vertical one as Qualcomm doesn’t make x86 chips so they can at least argue it wouldn’t be anti-competitive.

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    • InvertedParallax@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It won’t, the market share is generally complementary, not competitive, the sectors tend to be different (more or less until recently).

      Mostly, if people are really scared into might fold (unlikely, but we don’t know everything) then the ftc will roll out the red carpet for a player like Intel.

      Doubt it will happen, qcomm is too smart, but it’s not unthinkable, and it would give qcomm domination over US cpus, save hyperscalers.

      It only happens if people are truly terrified.

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• SomeGuy69@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Sounds more like them trying to boost their stock price with rumors.

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• Wooki@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Good god no.

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  • rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    So they’re fine apart from the people doing the work, and the people directing that work?

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    • Tja@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That, and the work being done and the facilities to do the work. Other that that, they’re dandy.

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    • Wooki@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      One would solve the other quite quickly

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• ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Change in leadership would also mean that the deal with AMD would have to be renegotiated, meaning that intel under qualcomm would not be legally able to create new 64-bit CPUs.

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  • stupidcasey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That sounds wrong, AMD is leasing from intel right? So if they sell then INTEL would still be able to make x86. IF anything AMD would be the one affected, unless I’m missing something.

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    • vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      no, intel pay amd to use the 64 bit instruction set. amd pay intel to support the 32 bit instruction set.

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    • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      No, AMD actually did the 64 bit extensions

      AMD has been working hard in innovating whereas Intel has been working hard riding it’s oen reputation into the ground whilst generating great short term profits for shareholders

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    • Janovich@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      My understanding is that x86 originated from Intel and x86-64 was an extension of it by AMD who had been licensing x86. They agreed to trade so neither paid to license one from the other. So Intel got to use x86-64 because they let AMD have free use of x86. As a result they both keep anyone else from using x86. And of course now a days x86-64 is the only one that really matters. Presumably another company getting involved like Qualcomm would mess up that old deal.

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  • avieshek@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You mean ARM?

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    • ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      No. AMD and Intel have a bunch of legally binding agreements that allow each other to manufacture CPUs that are essentially 100% compatible architecture-wise. You can install any OS on an Intel CPU, replace that CPU with one from AMD and expect things to work just the same (talking compatibility, not performance) and vice versa. The 64bit extension for the x86 architecture was created by and is patented by AMD. Intel are able to use that extension in any of their processors without paying royalties, but AMD are the owners of that specific technology. The contracts between these two companies also dictate that those contracts need to be renegotiated in case either company gets bought out, which makes me think that qualcomm would only care about buying intel because it would allow them to essentially permanently deadlock all negotiations and thus kill the x86 architecture, immediatly handing the entire CPU industry to ARM and, going by market share, themselves.

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