Why AMD Should Buy ARM Now

[verbalizer]

nVidia, ball might now be in your court.
I suggest you move wisely..

 

[nottheking]

[citation][nom]vj1219[/nom]I think you all need some financial literacy[/citation]
Maybe you might do with some basic literacy, too, to see that over 20% of the comments before yours were stating the exact same thing... Well, either on market cap or AMD's current debt, or in other words concerns about AMD's net worth either way.

 

[Chad Boga]

The author of this article needs to sign up at AMDZone, he would fit right in.

 

[verrul]

man advantage the old g3-4 series had was the 128 bit processing power which meant lower load times and a beautiful memory bandwidth. the down side was the horrid heat envelope which is why they were clocked so much lower. Arm had interesting RISC solution that used much lower power than apple was able to achieve with their RISC chips

 

[verrul]

er main instead of man

 

[pjmelect]

Maybe ARM should buy AMD.

 

[renz496]

[citation][nom]pjmelect[/nom]Maybe ARM should buy AMD.[/citation]

what for? if they really did that intel will be the sole player left in in cpu arena

 

[pjmelect]

I think that neither AMD nor ARM is big enough to buy the other and that a partnership or maybe even a merger is the best course of action for the two companies.

 

[vaughn2k]

Merger would be first then acquisition...

 

[Guest]

Next in the series: Why AMD Should Buy Apple Now

 

[back_by_demand]

[citation][nom]mega_18[/nom]Next time, try researching before you write such a silly article.ARM does NOT manufacturer chips. They sell/license IP for their architecture. Companies such as Marvell, Samsung, NVidia, TI, Qualcomm, etc manufacturer[/citation]
Actually, AMD don't manufacture either now they have spun off the manufacturing and are now fabless.
Short memory here, folks...

 

[teodoreh]

Maybe Zilog should buy both AMD and ARM and create the Z90, that will kick ass!

 

[serendipiti]

if this happens, probably intel would buy nvidia ?

 

[verbalizer]

if this happens, probably intel would buy nvidia ?

never...
you must not be up to date on nVidia.
they are entering the market themselves right now.
if it is to be successful, we'll have to wait and see.
but Intel buying nVidia, NOT.

 

[knowom]

AMD can't afford ARM and Nvidia has more equity and is a better fit for ARM anyway especially for the consumer.

If AMD buys ARM then windows 9 damn well better support for PowerPC and IBM should merge with Nvidia.

 

[binwhui]

i really hope they help each other out. :]

 

[Cyberat_88]

Intel should consider buying Motorola, unless my knowledge is outdated.

 

[pogsnet]

To all creatures who does not get the point why AMD should acquire ARM.

AMD is campaigning lately about standardization of technologies. Like OpenCL not CUDA which is exclusive and Physx, now Havoc which is acquired by Intel but since it is open AMD will support it. If ARM will be acquired by AMD it will support OpenCL and other Technologies by AMD and since AMD wants standardization, that technology is open to others too unlike Intel and Nvidia who wants to keep stuffs for themselves only.

So PC's with AMD will be highly compatible with ARM based cpu in the future and the future of ARM to reach desktop is much clearer on AMD's path. It is about architectural design issue not selling chips that is why AMD should acquire it.

 

[epdm2be]

[citation][nom]o1001010[/nom]Arm as a company worths twice as much as AMD. Shouldn't it be the other way around?[/citation]
Those americans they think they can solve everything by buying stuff!

Indeed it "could" be the other way around. ARM buying AMD. But it won't. And if it would happen then I believe it won't be good for either AMD nor ARM. Each have their own turf. In the end if AMD has to go then so be it. Those yankees already got Nokia in their pocket. You know.. that company that sells the most cell-phones worldwide... cell-phones with ARM processors... right.

 

[eddieroolz]

You mean absorb another multi-billion dollar purchase, even when AMD is still trying to cope with the purchase of ATi?

What you are thinking, I have no clue.

 

[gamebrigada]

AMD's not doing as bad as people think. Graphics department is absolutely raping, processor department isn't doing so bad.

To all those arguing the AMD/ARM buying AMD/ARM... AMD is more then 10 times bigger then ARM. Especially with that BEEFY intel settlement they still have.

 

[Guest]

Actually, AMD don't manufacture either now they have spun off the manufacturing and are now fabless.
Short memory here, folks...
teodoreh 04/30/2011 8:10 PM

True, but AMD 'does' sell Microprocessors. ARM does NOT. ARM licences technology. They do not build anything, nor pay anyone else to build anything for them. What would be the point or purchasing ARM?

 

[alxlr8]

ARM's business model dictates that it remains neutral to all parties. Although ARM licenses to practically every semiconductor company on the planet, have you ever heard them make a single statement either favouring or comparing one customers solution over another's? NVIDIA is one of their many customers, and a company of a similar ilk to ATI (and its subsequent absorption into AMD) - to be acquired by AMD is totally against the ARM business model, and would scupper even just this one example of a very important strategic alliance with NVIDIA; at best, AMD represents yet another such bolt-on alliance for the company. There is very little upside to either business for AMD to consider an acquisition, where for less than one percent of the price AMD could get hold of every single piece of ARMs IP, including future generations of IP for years to come?

Senseless FUD once again from this writer.

 

[ww2003]

it would be a smart move for amd. they would ground much more and bring in more if they did.,

 

[Cyberat_88]

Whatever happened to number 3, Motorola, backing out of Apple ?