AMD Hires Bank To Explore Sale Options

Dainsanefh tips this report from Reuters: "Advanced Micro Devices has hired JPMorgan Chase & Co to explore options, which could include a potential sale, as the chipmaker struggles to find a role in an industry increasingly focused on mobile and away from traditional PCs, according to three sources familiar with the situation. ... Some investors believe part or all of AMD could be bought by a technology company that might want to emulate Apple Inc's tight control of software and components, a strategy credited in part for the success of the iPad and iPhone. Microsoft Corp, Google Inc, Samsung Electronics, Intel Corp and even Facebook Inc have been suggested by Wall Street analysts as potential suitors that could benefit from some of AMD's chip business, including its graphics division, PC processors and server chips. Others say AMD's most valuable asset may be its deep bench of engineers or its patents." Update: 11/14 01:44 GMT by S : In an emailed statement, an AMD representative said the company "is not actively pursuing a sale of the company or significant assets at this time."

Comments

Re:Apple

[beelsebob]

Apple will be the last to buy AMD. Apple are after small companies that have very specialised knowledge in producing low power, great performance per watt chips. AMD is a huge company that produced mediocre performance high watt per performance chips. They're the last people Apple would be looking at.

Re:At Least

[hairyfeet]

But the ONLY thing Intel uses of AMD that is known is X64, whereas AMD uses the patented up the ass X86 instruction set. So basically unless a court rules in favor of AMD (quite unlikely) then Intel can simply refuse to approve the sale and hold them over a barrel until they get a completely one sided deal in their favor.

unless a miracle happens i say buy up those sweet and cheap AMD chips while you can, because once AMD is gone its gonna be high end ultra chips and assraping prices all the way. Luckily software development hasn't kept up with the hardware in some years so those $110 Thuban chips should give you good performance for quite awhile. Hell as I'm typing this I'm listening to music and transcoding a couple of dozen videos for a neighbor and not only does this Thuban not feel laggy, its got cores to spare which is nice thanks to Turbocore speeding the cores that the transcode is running on while dropping the speed of the cores down that aren't needed.