Intel to Buy Rival AMD: Old Rumors Resurface

May 2, 2013 Jonathan Heroux News, Processors 20

Old rumors are resurfacing as the PC market is shrinking. According to an unnamed informer at Tech Trader Daily, Intel could be thinking of buying long time rival AMD.

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Image Courtesy – Netbookreviews.com

Both companies have unique and competing intellectual property that, if combined, could better the chances of the newly formed entity to fight emerging players in the mobile computing market, namely ARM and licensees.

The sales of computers based on x86 architecture are stagnating and might even be shrinking in the near future, pushed back by tablets and smartphones; a market in which neither Intel nor AMD could make significant advances in the past years. The presence of new players like ARM in the changing computer market could also mean that such a merger could be allowed to move forward under anti-trust laws and regulations.

Xbit reports

AMD’s stock rose 14% in the wake of the rumors.

– dostov

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#1 May 02, 2013

Wow! Interesting... Best of both world anytime soon?

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#2 May 02, 2013

My only fear would be total lack of competition. In the budget realm at least AMD keeps Intel on its toes, if not in IPC performance.

Could you imagine the GPU power of an AMD APU combined with the CPU power of an Intel CPU a generation from now? The generation-after-this consoles would be just as good as a PC at 1080p.

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#3 May 02, 2013

Shouldn't be allowed. I know I feel a certain sort of way about AMD but ARM does not make desktop processors, server processors, etc, (to my knowledge?) so there would be no competition? Absolutely not. And what of the graphics cards? Intel GFX cards vs nVidia? It would be an extremely hard choice =P

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#4 May 02, 2013

Totally agree with hoki, no competition = much higher price and since Intel is the one that keep the price high .... if intel buy AMD... i dont see the price going down !

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#5 May 02, 2013

^Really not sure about that.
Intel has (roughly) 3 lines of CPUs: locked i3/i5, unlocked i5/i7, and Extreme/x79.

They all find owners, in different proportions, sure, but they find owners.

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#6 May 02, 2013

I really don't think the US government would allow this. Hell, the AT&T - T-mobile merger would have created less of a monopoly and that got broken up. This essentially creates zero competition in the x86 CPU market.

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#7 May 02, 2013

I really don't think the US government would allow this. Hell, the AT&T - T-mobile merger would have created less of a monopoly and that got broken up. This essentially creates zero competition in the x86 CPU market.

Truth.

Rumors are rumors for a reason. Though someone surely made a boatload of money off that uptick from it.

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#8 May 02, 2013

I really don't think the US government would allow this. Hell, the AT&T - T-mobile merger would have created less of a monopoly and that got broken up. This essentially creates zero competition in the x86 CPU market.

Agree as well. THough what is interesting is the theory that because of the ARM stuff it could go through...

But then again, Sirius and XM merged too and there isnt any competition there... :shrug:

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#9 May 02, 2013

I don't see the government blocking it, personally.

I don't want to see it happen, either.
The only plus for the consumer would be on the GPU end, Imagine for a bit that the ATI/AMD GPU people now have actual serious R&D money!
What now, Nvidia?

EDIT:
As a note, of course they're "thinking about it", lol.
I think about buying AMD sometimes.

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#10 May 03, 2013

Fortunately, just a rumor. AMD will be rolling in more soon with the next generation consoles expected to use their chips. Besides, how would you say their name?

Inamd?

I nam'd the first x86 chip with Cool N Turbo Boost.

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