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Chipmaker Qualcomm Is Said to Explore Takeover of Intel

bloomberg.com

39 pointskungfudoi14 comments

Is this the same Bloomberg that alerted the world to the existence of hardware trojans in server platforms (e.g., Supermicro), only then it turned out that none of it could be evidenced? This is looking like a rumor mill...

I cross fingers very for that not to happen. Intel used to be a shitty company in term of open sourcing and freely available specifications and they are now kind of leaders as much as you can be in the sector.

Qualcomm is probably the worst. Keeping everything as closed secret and avoid open source drivers and co...

Did each company's MBAs get together and plot this out?

It would be the long slow end of them both.

Discussion (67 points, 1 day ago, 73 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41604817

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Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41604817

How can this pass when NVIDIA failed to take over ARM?

Qualcomm is not the most dominant chip designer in basically any market section. Intel is the worst of the best fabs.

Still, I think there would be some serious antitrust scrutiny.

They might let Qualcomm take the Intel design business but make them split out fabrication. Qualcomm might not be interested in that offer, thoguh.

5G modems. Their only competitor was Intel until Apple bought that business, but afaik they’re still using Qualcomm.

They is also pretty much a duopoly in mobile chips in the western market.

Doesn't Mediatek have 5g modems? and Samsung? Do they license Qualcomm tech?

Qualcomm and Intel are both US-based companies.

Fun facts, Broadcom changed its base from Singapore to US just so it can buy Qualcomm but failed nonetheless.

[1] Broadcom completes move to U.S. from Singapore:

https://www.reuters.com/article/business/broadcom-completes-...

But I think this is probably still need to be approved by EU and a few asian regulators at the very least.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41611018

Why even have regulators if that goes through?

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