Qualcomm Reportedly Loses Interest In Intel Takeover 30
Qualcomm's interest in acquiring Intel is cooling due to the complexity of the deal, Intel's debt, and regulatory hurdles. However, according to Bloomberg, Qualcomm may still explore acquiring certain divisions of Intel to expand into markets like PCs and networking. Tom's Hardware reports: [T]he proposed acquisition faced significant obstacles, including Intel's $50 billion debt, dropping CPU market share, and its struggling semiconductor manufacturing unit, an area where Qualcomm lacks expertise. A deal of this magnitude would also likely trigger extensive regulatory scrutiny, particularly in China, a key market for both companies.
Intel is undergoing significant restructuring under CEO Pat Gelsinger to reclaim its competitiveness in the semiconductor market in terms of products and process technologies. Still, for now, both Intel and Qualcomm are quite successful standalone companies. While the combination would make a formidable firm (probably facing unprecedented antitrust scrutiny), it does not make much sense for Qualcomm to make such a massive takeover. These factors have collectively made a complete takeover less appealing to Qualcomm. Meanwhile, selling off a part of the company to Qualcomm may not make sense for Intel.
Qualcomm aims to generate $22 billion in annual revenue by 2029 by expanding into markets like personal computers, networking, and automotive chips. Although Cristiano Amon, Qualcomm's chief executive, has stated that his company did not need a major takeover to achieve this goal, the company initiated preliminary discussions with Intel regarding a potential acquisition in September. Yet, it does not look like the deal is going to happen.
Intel is undergoing significant restructuring under CEO Pat Gelsinger to reclaim its competitiveness in the semiconductor market in terms of products and process technologies. Still, for now, both Intel and Qualcomm are quite successful standalone companies. While the combination would make a formidable firm (probably facing unprecedented antitrust scrutiny), it does not make much sense for Qualcomm to make such a massive takeover. These factors have collectively made a complete takeover less appealing to Qualcomm. Meanwhile, selling off a part of the company to Qualcomm may not make sense for Intel.
Qualcomm aims to generate $22 billion in annual revenue by 2029 by expanding into markets like personal computers, networking, and automotive chips. Although Cristiano Amon, Qualcomm's chief executive, has stated that his company did not need a major takeover to achieve this goal, the company initiated preliminary discussions with Intel regarding a potential acquisition in September. Yet, it does not look like the deal is going to happen.
And crappy tech... (Score:4, Interesting)
Qualcomm is just too nice to say that. Intel is a lemon at this time. A lemmon nobody sane wants.
Re:And crappy tech... (Score:4, Informative)
Oh, how the mighty have fallen.
I remember when Intel was a tech behemoth, and AMD was a struggling upstart nipping at Intel's heels. Today, Intel's market cap is half of AMD's.
"Bankruptcies happen two ways. Gradually, and then suddenly." -- Ernest Hemingway
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AMD went through rough water as well before.
AMD has fallen behind and then caught up with its next generation.
AMD can do that because it's fabless, which makes it fast and nimble.
Intel's problems are structural.
Intel does both design and fabbing, and is only as strong as the weakest link. The design side and the fab side are like two drowning men hugging each other.
They will catch up with TSMC.
Not likely. More importantly, Intel shouldn't be trying to compete with TSMC in the first place.
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Re:And crappy tech... (Score:4, Informative)
From memory, AMD was at a certain point not fabless.
AMD spun off its fabs in 2008.
The spin off became GlobalFoundries [wikipedia.org].
In hindsight, it was a smart move.
Samsung is the only company that successfully combines designing and fabbing, and that's due mainly to Korean cronyism.
Intel is the best the US has.
TSMC is building a big fab in Arizona.
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TSMC is building a big fab in Arizona.
Yeah, and the yields there are already better than Intel's.
Intel won't have another process out until next year at the earliest, and that's assuming they actually achieve it successfully unlike their last process advance.
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Intel is the best the US has.
False [tomshardware.com].
TSMC got yields up in the USA before Intel did, after starting later.
TSMC will become an American company after Taiwan is invaded by the PRCCCP.
Intel says their next process is coming sometime next year. We'll see.
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TSMC will become an American company after Taiwan is invaded by the PRCCCP.
There are a *lot* of pretty wild assumptions there.
When/if the PRC takes Taiwan, the US has options:
Accept that it happened:
TSMC is now a Chinese company.
Do not accept that it happened:
Warfare. It all becomes pretty moot, then.
Economic warfare (we seize TSMC assets in the name of "national security"), which likely leads to real warfare.
The first is what is going to happen.
TSMC will become a Chinese company.
The powers that be aren't willing to start a hot war with China over an island 80 miles
Re: And crappy tech... (Score:2)
"There are a *lot* of pretty wild assumptions there."
TSMC and ASML have both stated that the EUV machines will shut themselves down without frequent blessings and also tweaking from ASML.
China can conquer Taiwan all they want and what they will get is nothing of use to them.
You may try to keep up at your leisure.
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TSMC and ASML have both stated that the EUV machines will shut themselves down without frequent blessings and also tweaking from ASML.
See above. Blessing will be given. The kills switches act as a threat.
China can conquer Taiwan all they want and what they will get is nothing of use to them.
Yes, they will.
1) economically crippling the western world, who buys 92% of its silicon from TSMC. Unless of course the kill switch isn't used.
You may try to keep up at your leisure.
You may continue fantasizing at yours.
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It is questionable about, "fallen behind". If you overclock and just throw excess voltage at a chip for higher clock speeds, and you do it as the standard, then sure, on the surface it's better, but you are using 100W of extra power to get the higher speeds. On the other hand, with Zen4 and Zen5, PBO(which was on by default for Zen4), would automatically clock itself higher based on temperature as the guide. Hitting 5.6GHz without manually overclocking on 16 cores and having that be fully safe and sta
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The problem is that Intel never had good CPU engineering, being a memory-company originally. AMD comes from signal processors...
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Intel has had world-leading CPU engineering and shitty engineering, a lot like AMD.
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Today, Intel's market cap is half of AMD's.
That bad already? Impressive!
Heh (Score:2)
I'd laugh my ass off when AMD would gather the funds to buy Intel in some years or so.
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I'd laugh my ass off when AMD would gather the funds to buy Intel in some years or so.
That'd be hilarious, but there's no way it'd pass anti-trust muster.
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Then they can buy the dead corpse.
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If AMD liquidated every asset it had right now (went out of business), they *still* couldn't afford to purchase a struggling Intel. It would have to be a stock swap.
Why am I seeing ads on Slashdot? (Score:1)
I have the 'Ads disabled' checkbox checked. Until 2 days ago, this was sufficient to keep the Slashdot home page free of ads.
2 days ago, the homepage stopped loading for me. I had to set NoScript to allow scripts from html-load.com to load, in order to see the homepage.
With this change, ads started to be displayed on every Slashdot page.
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yeah, this happened on a system with AdBlockPlus installed instead of uBlock. Time to migrate, perhaps.
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I have fsdn.com enabled and I'm not getting ads
I have 6sc.co, and ml314.com blocked and I am not seeing any.
I am using only noscript and ublock origin for ad blocking.
Wow! Qualcomm?! (Score:5, Funny)
They must have made a fortune selling licenses for Eudora.
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They made a fortune selling patent licenses under extractitive terms.
They would have good and truly killed Intel's x86 under similar terms.
I run AMD here but I also don't want AMD to have no competition.
Intel has certain mobile patents that probably QC was trying to get to ensure market monopoly in the Western world.
China don't care if we let government detonate our economy. And USG gave Intel $8B in corporate welfare so Intel may not feel like giving QC a sweet deal now.
Intel's management still ignores eng
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Intel's management still ignores engineering so that will be burned through quickly.
This is an idiotic take.
Intel has the best performing x86 core in the world right now. A crown that they have often had, due to good engineering at times, and willingness to push cock rates through the roof at times (which is also good engineering, to a degree, since if you can push clocks higher than your competition, your part is still better at something)
There are problems with their process that they're using to produce that core. Big problems.
Claiming that this implies "Intel's management ignores
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