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Amazon Considering Buying Texas Instrument's Chip Business

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the sale-on-graphing-calculators dept.

puddingebola writes "From the article, "Amazon is reportedly in 'advanced negotiations' to acquire Texas Instruments' OMAP chip division, bringing chip design for its Kindle tablets in-house, and helping TI refocus on embedded systems. The deal in discussion, Calcalist reports, follows TI's public distancing from its own phone and tablet chip business in the face of rising competition from Qualcomm, Samsung, and others, though Amazon taking charge of OMAP could leave rivals Barnes & Noble in a tricky situation.'"

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  1. Do Not Want! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ugh - I don't like Amazon as a company. They're annoying and wedge themselves into my view all the time and I want them to go away.

    TI on the other hand.... I really like TI chips and support. I've worked with a number of chip vendors, and they're my favorite when it comes to developer support, Linux support and SDKs.

    Plus, I think of Amazon as a "sell materialistic people a bunch of useless junk" company, whereas TI is all into signal processing, military, heath care, and all kinds of actual useful things.

    I really don't want this to happen.