Rumor: AMD is up for sale, Dell may be interested

Greg0986 · 15 Feb 2011 at 19:54

As far as the stock market is concerned, Advanced Micro Devices may be up for sale. AMD's shares were significantly up yesterday, apparently on rumors that Dell is interested in buying the American multinational semiconductor company.

http://www.techspot.com/news/42411-rumor-amd-is-up-for-sale-dell-may-be-interested.html

Please don't turn this into a flaming war, if it happens I will ask it to be deleted.

wooly-back-jack · 15 Feb 2011 at 19:56

oh noes, I may have to buy a x6 processor earlier than I thought lol
this may cause panic buying now y'know!

Jupiter · 15 Feb 2011 at 19:57

Wow if that was to happen people can only imagine what kind of advertising wed get. AMD own ATI (They are the same company really) so the dell logo would be everywhere

Apem · 15 Feb 2011 at 19:57

OMG if its true about dell buying AMD how many people will be going to intel.

lolwithtim · 15 Feb 2011 at 19:59

Well this is interesting, see how it goes.

I don't know what Dell PCs are like and what Dell as a company are like. Haven't heard too many good things about them and thats from people who don't know much about what goes on inside the computer.

Greg0986 · 15 Feb 2011 at 19:59

Apem said:
OMG if its true about dell buying AMD how many people will be going to intel.

If it is true, I might just forget about getting a new graphics card and go intel and then get a new GFX card

Judgeneo · 15 Feb 2011 at 20:00

Rumours started when the CEO stepped down.

The other rumour is that ATIC is interested. Much more likely in my opinion

Zeebedy · 15 Feb 2011 at 20:02

Man am I glad I just ordered the i7 and NVIDIA GPU!

RTJ

Marvin · 15 Feb 2011 at 20:36

I reckon the most likely thing is that it's a rumour started to cast doubt before their new CPU line up is released, and basically scaremongering. Definitely don't want Dell owning them...

LizardKing · 15 Feb 2011 at 20:40

Interesting! Dell are king in the business world.

I dont think Intel would be to happy in loosing the 3rd worlds largest PC/Server vendor.

anuraj · 15 Feb 2011 at 20:41

Marvin said:
I reckon the most likely thing is that it's a rumour started to cast doubt before their new CPU line up is released, and basically scaremongering. Definitely don't want Dell owning them...

Well it's been so long since they released a new chipset so dell might be thinking, "What if we but AMD and release a crappy bulldozer and sell it for really high prices like we do with alienware."

DJ_Hughesy · 15 Feb 2011 at 21:10

anuraj said:
Well it's been so long since they released a new chipset so dell might be thinking, "What if we but AMD and release a crappy bulldozer and sell it for really high prices like we do with alienware."

ten talk with intel about charging even more for all stuff so they make more money..

till it gets to the point your basicaly buying a pile of dog poo n expecting it to run crysis 2...

anuraj · 15 Feb 2011 at 21:13

Imagine it a dell radeon hd 7000

Predicament · 15 Feb 2011 at 21:54

whats going to happen to bulldozer if this take over happens..

the new GFX card: Dell Radeon 100000x

Maxi011 · 15 Feb 2011 at 22:12

anuraj said:
Imagine it a dell radeon hd 7000

and it will only set you back £1000

Skellig · 15 Feb 2011 at 22:35

I hope this doesn't happen.

alex24 · 15 Feb 2011 at 22:39

Dislike Dell, like AMD. Will it be good for AMD? Yes, if Dell don't mess with them at all. But they will - why miss the wealth of opportunities that such a deal would present to them? So, if true, this is probably bad news, but really I have no idea how it'll actually turn out.

danzhang16 · 15 Feb 2011 at 22:40

Please no! Will it mean that dell will charge more for components or?

Angelos_n · 15 Feb 2011 at 23:16

i bet HP and IBM are loving this. Their server (and desktop) markets will explode (more HP)