| ▲ | epolanski 4 hours ago |
| Unlikely to pass anti trust, they failed already acquiring ARM back in time. Edit: I see a lot of confusion on the topic. The anti trust does not need to be from US to be essentially binding, UK, EU, etc have also a de facto veto on mergers of global companies, even if those are US based, this is especially true in global sectors like semiconductors where everybody depends on everybody else from patents to machinery. |
|
| ▲ | briffle 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| They could just license all the IP, and hire away all the Engineers and executives... :) |
| |
| ▲ | clhodapp 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I don't think that's allowed under the terms of the x86/x86_64 cross-license deal with AMD. That's why, for example, any meaningful collaboration between Intel and Nvidia under this partnership has to be released in the form of an Intel product using Nvidia tech, rather than an Nvidia product using Intel tech. | |
| ▲ | Dr_Birdbrain 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Maybe all the engineers, but not the executives who created this problem to begin with |
|
|
| ▲ | nerdsniper 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It would kind of match AMD’s acquisition of ATI. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATI_Technologies |
| |
| ▲ | scrlk 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | What I find somewhat humorous: AMD originally wanted to acquire Nvidia, but walked away when Jensen apparently insisted on becoming the CEO of the merged company. https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/insider-says... I wonder how AMD would have fared against Intel post-Conroe if Jensen was CEO. They were behind but still competitive until the Bulldozer flop, only recovering with Zen (and even then it took a few generations for Zen to mature). | | |
| ▲ | overfeed 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | > only recovering with Zen (and even then it took a few generations for Zen to mature). Zen was a beast from day one. Zen 1 more or less matched Intel on single-core perf and outmatched it on multicore. Zen 1 blew Intel out of water on perf/$, so much so that the morning after booting up my Zen 1 computer, I bought as many AMD shares as I could afford. | | |
| ▲ | kimixa 43 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Zen1 was further behind in ST perf than Intel is today in it's desktop offerings. They really exploited their strength in MT and price, and showed that the market was already chafing under Intel's reluctance to go beyond 4 cores on their consumer line, presumably to avoid stepping on the toes of HEDT. But that just caused the competition to pretty much invalidate that entire line instead. And I don't really see the situation being that obviously different if it was Nvidia who they merged with and Jensen was CEO. The big issue was simply that AMD didn't have the cash at hand to both pay for ATI and maintain investment in R&D, at least without their next few products completely dominating the competition. I don't see a different CEO changing that. Unless Jensen was willing to value Nvidia significantly less than ATI at the time. |
|
|
|
|
| ▲ | deaddodo 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| "De facto" is the keyword there. Only the nation of origin has any say on company management and infrastructure in a de jure manner. The only power non-origin nations/entities have is via leveraging their ability to do business in the region and/or their local holdings. |
| |
| ▲ | guerrilla 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | > The only power non-origin nations/entities have is via leveraging their ability to do business in the region and/or their local holdings. Which is absolutely enormous, so this distinction is splitting hairs. |
|
|
| ▲ | embedding-shape 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Different country (UK vs US) + different administration might change the results. Who said you can't just try the same thing over and over again until it works? |
|
| ▲ | asveikau 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The current administration would let them do it. |
| |
|
| ▲ | allie1 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I think they'd allow it so they can build a US based foundry behemoth |
