If you wanted to acquire Intel you'd do it now. Maybe Intel's future products are garbage and they do worse - but the upside seems pretty high otherwise. This seems like a bit of a firesale price to acquire an advanced fab and CPU maker. Sure, it's Intel and they haven't been doing great, but companies with solid reliable outlooks don't trade this cheaply.

Ofc I would kind of hope/expect antitrust to object given that Intel makes both GPUs and CPUs, and Nvidia is/has dipped their toes into CPU production as well.

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fidotron 7 days ago | parent [-]

> If you wanted to acquire Intel you'd do it now.

Intel still has to go through a lot of reorg (i.e. massive cuts) to get to a happy place, and this is what their succession of CEOs have been procrastinating over.

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Panzer04 7 days ago | parent | next [-]

I recall reading a reddit comment (resounding source, I know) that claimed the reason Intel's e-cores are crushing it is because they actually synthesise them, while the P-cores are a bunch of bespoke circuits bodged together.

One wonders just how bad things must have been internally for that to be the state of one of their core IPs in this day and age...

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baq 7 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Judging by my linkedin feed the 'a lot of reorg' is underway.

	▲	fidotron 7 days ago \| parent [-]
		Bluntly, Intel has corporate cancer, and it requires removing the actual cancers, not a sort of 20% haircut.