What if intel bought amd?

[Totality]

What if intel bought amd pls let me know what you think

[Takt1kal]

1 minute ago, Totality said:

What if intel bought amd pls let me know what you think

no please.

I would hate it.

[Takt1kal]

anyways they can't (for obvious reasons) 

[Eigenvektor]

3 minutes ago, Totality said:

What if intel bought amd pls let me know what you think

This would create a monopoly in the x86 market, so regulators would never allow it.

[lais911]

It would be like PAC-MAN but the ghosts allied with pac-man

 

[AlexaKitty]

What kind of question is this lol

[SansVarnic]

22 minutes ago, Totality said:

What if intel bought amd pls let me know what you think

This would not happen due to anti-trust and anti-monopoly laws. Intel would not have a fair competitor and thusly creating a monopoly.

 

[Takt1kal]

https://www.quora.com/Why-doesnt-Intel-just-buy-AMD-to-stop-AMD-from-beating-them

Lol the same question in quora 

[Totality]

40 minutes ago, Totality said:

What if intel bought amd pls let me know what you think

lol its hypothetical i know it wont happen for years

[NineEyeRon]

22 minutes ago, knockless said:

https://www.quora.com/Why-doesnt-Intel-just-buy-AMD-to-stop-AMD-from-beating-them

Lol the same question in quora 

That was a legitimate question, the person didn’t know why and they found out by asking.

[SupaKomputa]

53 minutes ago, Eigenvektor said:

This would create a monopoly in the x86 market, so regulators would never allow it.

even if AMD is dead broke and beg Intel to have them?

[Arika]

17 minutes ago, Totality said:

lol its hypothetical i know it wont happen ever

Ftfy

[Dissitesuxba11s]

2 minutes ago, SupaKomputa said:

even if AMD is dead broke and beg Intel to have them?

Someone else would have to buy them that's not Intel.

[SupaKomputa]

Just now, Dissitesuxba11s said:

Someone else would have to buy them that's not Intel.

okay, what if nobody buys them? do the government let them die? naturally creating the monopoly?

Intel practically owns the monopoly of x86 code in the first place, if it weren't for the 386 / 486 shortage that forced them to distribute the code for the clone companies. 

[Action_Johnson]

We would recess back to cheap-to-make expensive-to-buy 22nm quad cores 

[Eigenvektor]

1 hour ago, SupaKomputa said:

okay, what if nobody buys them? do the government let them die? naturally creating the monopoly?

Intel practically owns the monopoly of x86 code in the first place, if it weren't for the 386 / 486 shortage that forced them to distribute the code for the clone companies. 

If AMD died and Intel became a monopoly, regulators would break the appart, to stop them from being a monopoly. Which is why it isn't in Intel's best interest for AMD to cease to exist.

[Arika]

1 minute ago, Eigenvektor said:

If AMD died and Intel became a monopoly, regulators would break the appart, to stop them from being a monopoly. Which is why it isn't in Intel's best interest for AMD to cease to exist.

nor should it be in the best interests of AMD (or consumers) for Intel to cease to exist, despite how much people on this forum wish it would happen.

[Reytime]

2 hours ago, Eigenvektor said:

This would create a monopoly in the x86 market, so regulators would never allow it.

Which makes me think of the theory that Intel is purposely allowing AMD to do well in the current market. ':)

[flo_306]

i actually wish there was a 3rd big competetor wich would increase the competition and thus lower the prices

 

 

[flo_306]

1 minute ago, Reytime said:

Which makes me think of the theory that Intel is purposely allowing AMD to do well in the current market. ':)

seems unlikely but after thinking about it it seems like a strat to come back with something better and raise the prices..

 

simple strat: create good product for xxx$ --> rival creates slightly better product and increases price by 10 to idk % --> you realease a slightly better product for even more money. 

^ repeat this process and u get BIG stonks

 

 

this is actually the case for AMD and Intel ATM...

[Spindel]

I think it would be more logical for intel to buy TSMC than AMD. 

I don't think Intels problem is in designing a good x86 CPU, intels problem is to design a good manufacturing process. 

[flo_306]

1 minute ago, Spindel said:

I think it would be more logical for intel to buy TSMC than AMD. 

I don't think Intels problem is in designing a good x86 CPU, intels problem is to design a good manufacturing process. 

i cant buy amd tho... idk about buying tsmc  but they definately cant buy AMD

[Spindel]

3 minutes ago, flo_306 said:

i cant buy amd tho... idk about buying tsmc  but they definately cant buy AMD

For the arguments sake lets play the hypothetical game of "if Intel could buy AMD"

As it stands I still see Intels problems being more with manufacturing than design, so from my POV buying a manufacturing process is what intel needs not a chip designer. 

[Totality]

1 hour ago, flo_306 said:

i actually wish there was a 3rd big competetor wich would increase the competition and thus lower the prices

 

 

well we have apple lol

[Eigenvektor]

10 minutes ago, Totality said:

well we have apple lol

Yeah Except for all the companies that can't use anything but Windows/x86 because of some silly legacy apps they need.

 

If ARM CPUs start to become a viable alternative and you can install Windows on both x86 and ARM and the whole x86-dominance thing is over then Intel becoming a monopoly would be less of an issue because suddenly you would have more competitors able to produce CPUs again. But right now only one x86 manufacturer would mean they could essentially extort the whole industry that is dependent on them. Which is why no one wants that.