Qualcomm Has Explored Buying Pieces of Intel Chip Design Business (reuters.com) 8
Qualcomm has explored the possibility of acquiring portions of Intel's design business to boost the company's product portfolio, Reuters reported Thursday, citing sources familiar with the matter. From the report: The mobile chipmaker has examined acquiring different pieces of Intel, which is struggling to generate cash and looking to shed business units and sell off other assets, the people said. Intel's client PC design business is of significant interest to Qualcomm executives, one of the sources said, but they are looking at all of the company's design units. Other pieces of Intel such as the server segment would make less sense for Qualcomm to acquire, another source with knowledge of Qualcomm's operations said.
Lol wut (Score:5, Interesting)
Qualcomm eh? Can't think of a worse marriage made in hell. That'd be layoff city. Odds are good they just want their IP.
Re:Lol wut (Score:4, Interesting)
Apple bought PARISC just for the engineers (not the IP), worked good for them, the IP acquired was obsolete but that team went onto making the ARM based processors for phones, pads and M1 Mac’s. So it could be a good win if the Human Resources are good.
Question is, would Qualcomm be acquiring revenue positive groups with lots of young innovative engineers, or marginal legacy product IP that has short term diminishing revenue with some ‘essential’ staff attached?
Re:Lol wut (Score:5, Informative)
Apple did not buy PA-RISC [wikipedia.org]. They bought P.A. Semi [wikipedia.org]. Are you also going around telling people that TSMC is supplied by ASMR?
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Not sure if I'd want Intel's remaining engineering talent and office politics.
Great...just great. (Score:4, Insightful)
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Intel, hubris (Score:3)
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Intel is just "innovating" that old saying:
When you can't innovate, placate, debate, then litigate! /s