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[Rumour] Samsung FTW?

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I seriously doubt they're doing that bad, have they had massive loses lately or what?

I believe a few months ago, AMD was getting an injection of a few billion from one of it's partners in China for R&D, but this entire Samsung acquisition could be immensely beneficial for funding, as well as allowing AMD fast access to all kinds of resources.  Samsung ram for their AMD branded Radeon memory, Samsung fabs, etcetera. 

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What would you want them to release, another higher clocked bulldozer? they are starting fresh and they aren't wasting money on dead products, 

 

I don't see where all the negativity is coming from, Samsung already made a deal to Fab Zen Processors and this is probably them just sealing everything up, maybe AMD will get a bigger Driver team. Maybe they will even get zen out on time now

I see this being good for everything AMD, too.  Fab plants, Samsung memory for radeon memory, Samsung integration of Freesync in all monitors and T.V.'s(could happen), and even for those Radeon branded SSD's, access to Samsung 3D-VNAND as well as controllers.  Just the R&D cash is a huge and big thing for AMD.  Like you said, this could bring in the AMD Golden Age.  All I want is Zen out by Summer 2015 >_>

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I don't know how I feel, I don't like the fact Samsung is the company wanting to buy it. Maybe another company that wants the best for the company, and not just all profits.

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Samsung would definitely benefit AMD with funding for R&D, and then AMD can benefit Samsung with their CPU / GPU knowledge.  This would be useful for everyone.  Competition not just ramping up for SOC's, but all applications and environments.  That would also give AMD fast access to Samsung's fabs.  Could also truly mean that all Samsung monitors from here on out are Freesync primarily enabled.  Hell, this could be good.  Funds AMD, helps Samsung take over the world, everyone wins.

 

Yes, that sounds true but I can't help but feel that desktop users will get shafted! Do we really want Nvidia to be the only GPU player in the game? I really can't see Samsung giving AMD a huge budget to produce desktop gaming cards. They care about the mobile markets only.

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Does Samsung really want phones melting inside peoples pockets? :P

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The TL;DR of this is that the Samsung Galaxy S7 will have a 16-core-pocket-warming feature. ;)

Id'e actually want a phone that could do that!

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Incase of buyout, will Intel lose the AMD64 extension or terminated if AMD loses the x86 license?

If that happens, it's goodby x86 pretty much (for some time atleast I presume.

 

As for the heating part and all that.

It's quite interesting that AMD was able to pack 512 GCN cores in a 35W part, same as 95W 7850K.

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I want this to happen. AMD need some R&D money and Samsung has the fabs to give AMD a substantial boost. It could be epic.

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dont think its gonna happen

pretty sure the x86 license isnt transferable

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What's next? Intel acquiring Nvidia?

They hate each other and are at each others throats a lot, Nvidia was AMDs graphics partner for a long time

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What's next? Intel acquiring Nvidia?

 

 

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for the sake of wallets everywhere lets hope not.

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Yes, that sounds true but I can't help but feel that desktop users will get shafted! Do we really want Nvidia to be the only GPU player in the game? I really can't see Samsung giving AMD a huge budget to produce desktop gaming cards. They care about the mobile markets only.

This would actually be in our favor, not because it'd shaft Desktop users.  This would give Samsung the capability to get -in- the Desktop market even further.  Samsung is in all markets, and the fact that AMD can help solidify their place to take over not only the Mobile world, but the desktop, server, and graphical departments - that'd be a -huge- reasoning for them.  Given that the point of most large companies is expansion in to as many fields that can yield profit, and AMD yields plenty of decent profit in their GPU's.

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I wonder if AMD has done anything surprising on the ARM front that could have Samsung looking at them for that IP.

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dont think its gonna happen

pretty sure the x86 license isnt transferable

That was my understanding as well, maybe they will just do it and tank the law suit from intel

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That was my understanding as well, maybe they will just do it and tank the law suit from intel

They where able to defend the spinning off of their fabs, after they defended that It wouldn't surprise me if they where able to pull something off. also I dont think intel wants to be the only x86 provider. I know that a lot of company's wont buy things if there is only a single source available.

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... This would give Samsung the capability to get -in- the Desktop market even further... 

 

Has Samsung ever tried expand into the desktop market? Not that I am aware of but I honestly don't know. I could easily see them taking the IP for their mobile departments and then selling off the rest. I could be way off. Just my initial reaction.

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Has Samsung ever tried expand into the desktop market? Not that I am aware of but I honestly don't know. I could easily see them taking the IP for their mobile departments and then selling off the rest. I could be way off. Just my initial reaction.

Well, that's because it would be costly to enter said market, but AMD is still in that market, and Samsung could easily take advantage of that.  This in my mind, likely will open up a -host- of doors for them.  A ton of new markets, and a lot of money to be gained, and a LOT of competition, and that means a lot of fun for us consumers.

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Wel lit will give AMD a huge amount of bonus money for RnD :D

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Actually except for GPU's AMD is doing almost everything bad,their apus are useless,their cpus are relics all their techs dont really succeed into profit like Mantle,HSA.

I really wish they get aquired but make Samsung agree to a new good strategy for server/desktop/mobile cpus/and new tech.With Samsuns 14nm tech best memory on market and such + AMD ip/engineers i think they can relaunch amd and deliver competitive products.Sadly amd has been doing cheap stuff for years now,Samsung is more like nvidia/intel top quality and high prices,but then i wouldnt mind samsung selling amd graphics 390 Super X with double precision and vram for 999$ just to make more R&D profits.

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Wasn't this rumored months ago? Wccftech.... seems legit. :rolleyes:

To be fair, this time WCCF is citing a pair of Korean analysts who have a pretty solid track record for predicting and finding out about mergers and buyouts before public announcements.

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Has Samsung ever tried expand into the desktop market? Not that I am aware of but I honestly don't know. I could easily see them taking the IP for their mobile departments and then selling off the rest. I could be way off. Just my initial reaction.

I don't see that as a reason why they wouldn't now, they didn't have a foot in the market before

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