Samsung to acquire AMD to compete with Intel?

[L'Ancien Regime]

http://wccftech.com/amd-allegedly-merge-samsung/

 

Samsung’s acquisition of AMD’s CPU and GPU IP can prove to be a very powerful weapon in the market and in the courts. AMD obtained the grand majority of its graphics IP from ATi, a company that was founded 8 years prior to Nvidia. This translates to 8 years of patents that Samsung can use to counter attack Nvidia in the on-going patent battle.

Naturally Samsung stands to gain more than just patents to use as weapons in legal battles. As it also stands to gain all of AMD’s future IP, including the highly anticipated high performance x86 “Zen” CPU microarchitecture, 64bit ARM “K12″ core and AMD’s upcoming “Arctic Islands” graphics architecture.

Samsung has a huge number of assets and leverage points that can significantly improve AMD’s competitive stance in the market as well. Chief among which is unlimited access to cutting edge 14nm FinFET manufacturing. In addition to a massive R&D budget that AMD can pour into product development.

Read more: http://wccftech.com/amd-allegedly-merge-samsung/#ixzz3VQJg4kE2

Edited March 25, 2015 by L'Ancien Regime

[Aleksey]

that seems like it could be very good news. Unless samsung just does it for the ip. and then just lets the cpu side of this die off.

 

but if it decided to compete with intel on the desktop front, that could be very nice indeed

[Carlosan]

the war field is the mobile and servers market, i suppose.

[AbnRanger]

the war field is the mobile and servers market, i suppose.

Probably so, but they would provide much better leadership than AMD's been able to, the past decade or so. AMD has gone through CEO's like Kim Kardashian goes through husbands.