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I stand corrected in thinking this was shop talk of business buddies. the amount of data on the net for this rumor is staggering for how fresh it is.
My bad I hope youll accept an apology. 😳
2 thumbs up on a merger for these guys. I feel its an awesome idea.
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ok, but just this time :mrgreen: cause im a good guy, (like you said b4) no really the funny thing is i worked for a company in australia called "the good guys" so its true lol.
later
 
Who knows . . . . the AMAT/AMD roadmap could take k10 to 32 nm in 12 months . . .LOL
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AMD does have something that AMAT might want badly and that is APM. Delivering tools with integrated APM or licenting it would give AMAT a good advantage over competing tool companies as it'a a proven technology for improving yields and reducing ramping time.
 
:lol: We, the members of the TomsHardware Forumz will! We'll wait until AMD's stock is at 1 cent and they make a hostile takeover bid! Muahaha!
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:lol: The members of TomsHardware Forumz owning AMD, now that could be interesting. Just make sure that I get a big discount on the R600 after you takeover AMD.
 
So would that make them AMATAMDATI? I don't think they could fit that on a case badge...
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I think you and Vern may be on to something

AMDAMATATI . . .am -DAM- uh - tat- ee

AMD has never had the cash for promotion. With a merger with AMAT a fancy PR firm could design an Ad campaign on K10, r600, 690 chipset, etc. on the Italian exotic car theme. . .

Driven by *The Greenman Group* ???

They may have to add !!!, though . .

K10 !!!
R600 !!!
 
Who knows . . . . the AMAT/AMD roadmap could take k10 to 32 nm in 12 months . . .LOL
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AMD does have something that AMAT might want badly and that is APM. Delivering tools with integrated APM or licenting it would give AMAT a good advantage over competing tool companies as it'a a proven technology for improving yields and reducing ramping time.

It's *Win Win* for both AMD & AMAT.

I think it would be very difficult for AMAT competitors to rush in and fill the AMAT *void* with Intel - AMAT is 4-5 times the size of its closest competitor.

They could never *stop* Intel but could help level the playing field beyond 45nm technology.
 
Who knows . . . . the AMAT/AMD roadmap could take k10 to 32 nm in 12 months . . .LOL
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AMD does have something that AMAT might want badly and that is APM. Delivering tools with integrated APM or licenting it would give AMAT a good advantage over competing tool companies as it'a a proven technology for improving yields and reducing ramping time.

It's *Win Win* for both AMD & AMAT.

I think it would be very difficult for AMAT competitors to rush in and fill the AMAT *void* with Intel - AMAT is 4-5 times the size of its closest competitor.

They could never *stop* Intel but could help level the playing field beyond 45nm technology.

Actualy the situation could be a little triky for Intel too because my guess is that AMAT is among the suppliers for their High K Toolset if not the only supplier.
 
This would make for a very complicated scenario. If AMAT bought out AMD, they would have a huge risk at leaking Intel IP. So, Intel would have to most likely get rid of all of their FSE's (Field Service Engineers) that are contracted by AMAT to maintain their toolsets. That is one scenario that is odd. But another one is if they all of the sudden owned AMD, then they would have acces to all of their competitors tool sets. Since I am sure that AMD uses a wide variety of fab tools as well. I can't imagine the other companies would be real thrilled about that either.

I just wonder how this could happen without having just about every company in the Semi Conductor industry up in arms.
 
This would make for a very complicated scenario. If AMAT bought out AMD, they would have a huge risk at leaking Intel IP. So, Intel would have to most likely get rid of all of their FSE's (Field Service Engineers) that are contracted by AMAT to maintain their toolsets. That is one scenario that is odd. But another one is if they all of the sudden owned AMD, then they would have acces to all of their competitors tool sets. Since I am sure that AMD uses a wide variety of fab tools as well. I can't imagine the other companies would be real thrilled about that either.

I just wonder how this could happen without having just about every company in the Semi Conductor industry up in arms.
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Well can this be an oportunity for AMAT? I think so, regardeles of the tectonic movements in the industry it might trigger. They cant' buy Intel that's for sure and no other company they can afford seems bring to the game as much as would AMD.
 
This would make for a very complicated scenario. If AMAT bought out AMD, they would have a huge risk at leaking Intel IP. So, Intel would have to most likely get rid of all of their FSE's (Field Service Engineers) that are contracted by AMAT to maintain their toolsets. That is one scenario that is odd. But another one is if they all of the sudden owned AMD, then they would have acces to all of their competitors tool sets. Since I am sure that AMD uses a wide variety of fab tools as well. I can't imagine the other companies would be real thrilled about that either.

I just wonder how this could happen without having just about every company in the Semi Conductor industry up in arms.
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Well can this be an oportunity for AMAT? I think so, regardeles of the tectonic movements in the industry it might trigger. They cant' buy Intel that's for sure and no other company they can afford seems bring to the game as much as would AMD.

I think it "could" be a big opportunity for AMAT, but I also think that it could be a huge risk. They would spend the money that they have made on a company that is currently losing money. In the process of doing that, they would run a strong risk of killing off the profitablility of their old business of supplying tools to the rest of the community. Obviously, I don't know any of the ins and outs of the situation, but I can see a scenario that would effectively have AMAT jumping on a sinking ship and going down with it.
 
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