[mini news] Chinese Regulators Approve Intel Deal to Purchase Altera

[patrickjp93]

http://seekingalpha.com/news/2997396-chinese-regulators-approve-intel-altera-deal-closing-expected-soon?uprof=10&dr=1#email_link

 

This was the last regulatory hurdle before the deal could be allowed to close.

 

Currently Altera's total share and market value is within 9 cents of Intel's current offer (16.7 billion USD). Someone with M&A expertise please explain why that's significant, because I don't know why it's mentioned.

 

With the closing of this deal, Intel will have FPGA IP secured which could be incredibly useful in future Xeon Phi and GPU endeavors. Further, the tighter coupling to its custom E7 Xeons with Skylake has been secured, which will turn up the heat on AMD's attempt to renew their server market presence.

 

This is the single biggest financial deal in all of Intel's history, and depending on how TSMC and Samsung fare in the coming year, it could have drastic effects on the FPGA market, since it's often quoted the first one to a new node gets the customers. Now if Broadwell-E and Skylake-E would just come out...

[PlayStation 2]

well i mean for amd to expand their server business they must have actual money first :^)

[ThinkWithPortals]

well i mean for amd to expand their server business they must have actual money first :^)

Shots fired.

[Dragontamercos]

Shots fired.

the shots have been in air for 7 years since Nvidia took over

 

but when will they hit

[Stefan1024]

FPGAs have moved towars SOCs lately with all the hard cores, I/O modules like PCIe and hybrid memory cube (HMC) integration.

And they allready anounced the Stratix 10 familly to be manufactured with the Intel 14nm process.

 

For me it more looks like Altera is putting an Intel core into an FPGA/SOC rather than Intel putting an FPGA part onto a processor.

 

Sadly these devices are so super expensive that we won't use any of them in a product soon, so I will not be able to play with one.

 

EDIT: oh and it has zero impact to gamers as they will not use one within the next 20 years at least.

[iCrushDreams]

well i mean for amd to expand their server business they must have actual money first :^)

They at least have Monopoly money.

*picks up the phone*

*hangs up*

Oh, they couldn't afford to keep their Monopoly printer running? Oops.

[patrickjp93]

FPGAs have moved towars SOCs lately with all the hard cores, I/O modules like PCIe and hybrid memory cube (HMC) integration.

And they allready anounced the Stratix 10 familly to be manufactured with the Intel 14nm process.

 

For me it more looks like Altera is putting an Intel core into an FPGA/SOC rather than Intel putting an FPGA part onto a processor.

 

Sadly these devices are so super expensive that we won't use any of them in a product soon, so I will not be able to play with one.

 

EDIT: oh and it has zero impact to gamers as they will not use one within the next 20 years at least.

 

Intel's offering FPGA acceleration integrated into skylake xeons. http://wccftech.com/massive-intel-xeon-e5-xeon-e7-skylake-purley-biggest-advancement-nehalem/

 

Further, Intel's also looking to undercut Xilinx by enough to drive them into the same financial ditch as AMD. 

 

And it's the IP that Intel can take from Altera that can be applied to GPU designs, not as using FPGAs for GPUs.

[CommandMan7]

Wait, an American company is purchasing a Chinese company? Since when does that ever happen? I thought it only worked the other way around...

[patrickjp93]

Wait, an American company is purchasing a Chinese company? Since when does that ever happen? I thought it only worked the other way around...

 

It's an American company buying an American company which has a presence in China (and Europe, which is why the Europeans had to approve it too).