ngneer
13 hours ago
Is this the same Bloomberg that alerted the world to the existence of hardware trojans in server platforms (e.g., Supermicro), only then it turned out that none of it could be evidenced? This is looking like a rumor mill...
Chipmaker Qualcomm Is Said to Explore Takeover of Intel
32 pointsposted 15 hours ago
by kungfudoi12 Comments
ChrisArchitect
8 hours ago
[dupe]
Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41604817
gnabgib
11 hours ago
Discussion (67 points, 1 day ago, 73 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41604817
rational_indian
13 hours ago
How can this pass when NVIDIA failed to take over ARM?
NewJazz
7 hours ago
Qualcomm is not the most dominant chip designer in basically any market section. Intel is the worst of the best fabs.
Still, I think there would be some serious antitrust scrutiny.
They might let Qualcomm take the Intel design business but make them split out fabrication. Qualcomm might not be interested in that offer, thoguh.
boomskats
10 hours ago
Qualcomm and Intel are both US-based companies.
teleforce
9 hours ago
Fun facts, Broadcom changed its base from Singapore to US just so it can buy Qualcomm but failed nonetheless.
[1] Broadcom completes move to U.S. from Singapore:
https://www.reuters.com/article/business/broadcom-completes-...
scheme271
10 hours ago
But I think this is probably still need to be approved by EU and a few asian regulators at the very least.
jmclnx
13 hours ago
badgersnake
13 hours ago
Why even have regulators if that goes through?
jacknews
6 hours ago
Did each company's MBAs get together and plot this out?
It would be the long slow end of them both.
known
2 hours ago
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