Chipmaker Qualcomm Is Said to Explore Takeover of Intel

39 pointsposted a year ago
by kungfudoi
(bloomberg.com)

15 Comments

ngneer

a year 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...

greatgib

a year ago

I cross fingers very for that not to happen. Intel used to be a shitty company in term of open sourcing and freely available specifications and they are now kind of leaders as much as you can be in the sector.

Qualcomm is probably the worst. Keeping everything as closed secret and avoid open source drivers and co...

jacknews

a year ago

Did each company's MBAs get together and plot this out?

It would be the long slow end of them both.

rational_indian

a year ago

How can this pass when NVIDIA failed to take over ARM?

NewJazz

a year 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.

badgersnake

a year ago

5G modems. Their only competitor was Intel until Apple bought that business, but afaik they’re still using Qualcomm.

They is also pretty much a duopoly in mobile chips in the western market.

NewJazz

a year ago

Doesn't Mediatek have 5g modems? and Samsung? Do they license Qualcomm tech?

badgersnake

a year ago

Why even have regulators if that goes through?