IBM positioned to buy AMD yet?

[tbirdou812]

I don`t know if this is a viable question or not but what would happen if IBM bought out AMD?What would the compeditors do?Would the AMD chips be drastically changed and their products changed for a heftier price tag?Just curious is all..

 

[MarkW]

Not going to happen. Ever.

Why? Because the day AMD ceases to be an independent entity, the agreement that AMD uses to produce Intel compatible chips terminates.

 

[Wisecracker]

It is very, highly, unlikely anyone will 'buy' AMD.

A much greater likelihood is that AMD will be taken private -- and, the licensing agreement(s) between Intel and AMD are also unlikely to be any kind of impediment to any deal.

I love these AMD rumors that pop-up every few weeks. If you purchased AMD stock at the last 'bankruptcy rumor' you could have made 20%+ on your money ...

from 2 weeks ago

 

[tbirdou812]

so do you think IBM is going to be number three in chip makers in the future?

 

[MarkW]

No. IBM has sold off everything except their PowerPC division. They even sold their fab to Global Foundries in 2014. Every indication is that IBM is slowly exiting the chip making business. They only thing keeping them in it right now are their PowerPC servers, and mainframes.

PC division went to Lenovo in 2004.

 

[synphul]

Ibm has moved away from the computer market in terms of hardware. They have programs working on iot type stuff and mostly work on business service, analytics, management and software. They sold off their home pc and server market to lenovo. The few semiconductor needs they have they've offloaded to global foundaries and they've given up their fab process. Considering all these recent moves over the past 10-12 years or so, it would be completely the opposite to pick up amd. They're not buying up chip processing, they're getting rid of what they had and focusing on other areas.

As far as lenovo goes, now that they're in charge of the old ibm pc and server hardware market, they have almost no amd solutions. Nearly everything from gaming laptops to student laptops, desktop pcs, servers, workstations, blade servers, cluster computing nodes - are nearly exclusively intel based. This was looking at the products on their site. I managed to find one amd powered system and it was either an all in one or tablet type device. In the past ibm used primarily intel before they gave up their hardware end of things and sold out to lenovo.

 

[neverumindnow]

I smell a troll. 30 posts, every one of them insipid, AMD vs Intel related garbage. Please people, don't feed.

If you are a troll, go away. If not, an hour's reading here will answer every one of the lame questions you have posted. I'm betting that another 2 hours reading will eliminate the need for your next year's worth of useless posts. Please do so.