News Qualcomm reportedly loses interest in Intel takeover

[Admin]

Qualcomm is not interested in buying Intel anymore but could consider separate parts of it.

Qualcomm reportedly loses interest in Intel takeover : Read more

 

[ekio]

They realised that embracing Intel was necrophilia.

 

[why_wolf]

Why buy now when you can just sit back and wait for the bankruptcy fire sale.

Realistically the only thing Qualcomm actually wants from Intel is all their patent rights. Qualcomm's whole strategy is to make it impossible for anyone to make smartphones without paying them for some patent even if you don't use a single Qualcomm part.

 

[DS426]

They realised that embracing Intel was necrophilia.

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The company (Intel) has betted its future existence on Intel 18A. Qualcomm didn't make that bet, so they might as well wait and see if the risk was worth the reward before even entertaining this idea any further.

 

[atomicWAR]

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The company (Intel) has betted its future existence on Intel 18A. Qualcomm didn't make that bet, so they might as well wait and see if the risk was worth the reward before even entertaining this idea any further.

Yeah at this point the best thing anyone can do interested in a take over is give Intel 18-24 months. Either they'll start a turn around and show they are worth the purchase at an even lower price than now or Intel will dip so low they have no choice but to entertain offers they would have thought unimaginable a few years ago.

If someone had to buy Intel I would honestly prefer it be Nvidia. Though like the Arm purchase IDT that would ever pass the hurdles needed to go through. I think an Apple buyout would be the worst thing possible in the long term. Honestly there is no "good" choice for this kind of industry consolidation. Hey bit_user if you're reading this... What are you thoughts? You always seem to have great insight to such topics...

 

[das_stig]

Probably looked at the complex issues with global regulators and decide not worth the time or money.

 

[husker]

I'm wondering the U.S. government has something to do with the "complexities".

 

[dalek1234]

"[Intel] ... still produces the majority of data center CPUs. This advantage will remain for as long as Intel has its manufacturing capacities"

On the surface, this statement looks good for Intel, but if you dig deeper things are bad and getting worse for Intel:

Yes, Intel sells more data center CPUs than AMD, but AMD makes more money from selling data center CPUs than Intel. Why is that? Because Intel is selling mostly lower-end CPUs that are relatively cheap, while AMD is selling mostly higher-end CPUs that are relatively expensive. Also, each quarter, AMD steals more of the data center $-share from Intel, so this "advantage" you speak of is not helping Intel in this regard either.