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Samsung Eyeing up AMD

I know, I know but it made me wonder what if !

Subject: Samsung Eyeing up AMD

While i can't confirm this i do have credible evidence that IF this were to happen this would mean the complete and utter destruction of Intel and it seems very likely to happen considering Samsungs aggressive fight for memory with Intel. I'm probably singing to the choir but i do have a confirmed source who did state this would clearly be the end of Intel and should explain why their selling off some of their memory factories especially with one of the swiss companies.
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"While i can't confirm this i do have credible evidence that IF this were to happen this would mean the complete and utter destruction of Intel"

Uhhhh - 30 seconds of Googling shows that Intel's market capitalisation is twice that of Samsung. Who writes this uninformed drivel?
 
Intell would manage, even if samsung would take over amd ( wich i doubt it will, theinq...)

Amd is smaller compared to intel than intel is compared to samsung...
 
Samsung maybe be a good idea. They have the money to fix AMD and have been around for quite a while.
 
LabR@t said:
samsung are HUGE !
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Not as huge compared to intel though as intel is compared to amd...

Iirc Samsung is 4x bigger as intel, but intel is 5x bigger than amd...

Either way, I think intel will manage even if amd would be taken over...
 
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mulpsmebeauty said:
"While i can't confirm this i do have credible evidence that IF this were to happen this would mean the complete and utter destruction of Intel"

Uhhhh - 30 seconds of Googling shows that Intel's market capitalisation is twice that of Samsung. Who writes this uninformed drivel?
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Some uneducated Inq reader. Virtually everything theinq publishes on their letters page is there so people can laugh at it. The link in the OP isn't to the Inq story: THIS is the right link.

To be fair, he does say that they're just rumours. Probably got them off some drunk investment banker in a pub. And a few of the outrageous rumours they published in the past did turn out to be correct. They were first to publish rumours of an Ati-AMD merger for instance.
 
Well Samsung seem to be flavor of the month at the moment and if a company like that could have the reins of AMD cant that can only be a good thing?
AMD have the potential, i think there just lacking a little direction and drive at the moment but who knows how strong the phenom will be.
Probably not true but interesting if it on the off chance it is.
 
the one thing AMD currently lack to really take it to intels face is capital, they lack investors and the capital to build more fabs, pump out more chips and generally grow, there stuck really, so maybe it would be good for AMD if they were bought out by samsung, would be good for samsung cause all they have to do is give AMD the means to make more chips and im sure intel would worry a bit more
 
Should have saved money and not bought out ATi, instead using that to build more fabs and churn out a greater amount of chips.
 
As long as they keep making good cpus i dont mind who is in charge of amd. Should help to get amd back on track with better oc cpus and faster clock for clock than intel possibly. Plus it will in turn drive intel to push harder to make even better cpus etc. Good allround result if its true and happens. Also maybe ati cards will use samsung memory on their gfx cards which i think makes good mem chips.
 
eracer2006 said:
does intel do ram ? no

does intel do tv's and lcd's and plasma screens ? no

etc
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None of this is relevant - Intel don't smoke kippers so they aren't concerned that they're weak in the Arbroath Smokie sector. The latest figures I can find (it's harder to track down Samsung's capitalisation than Intel's) is that Intel are currently worth 70 billion POUNDS, while Samsung is worth a shade over 100 billion DOLLARS. That makes Intel worth $140 billion. Not quite the 2:1 ratio that I'd thought earlier up this thread, but enough that they aren't the minnows in this equation.
 
on a slight side note, amd's last best effort was the 939 socket cpu's and they had a very good marketing position but they seemed to content to rest on the success of that platform. then when intel brought out core 2, amd seemed to dissapear. and intel seem to be pushing further eg 45nm cpu's i remember when i first registered on this forum amd 64 was all the rage now its intel again
 
setter said:
on a slight side note, amd's last best effort was the 939 socket cpu's and they had a very good marketing position but they seemed to content to rest on the success of that platform.
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It's not that at all - AMD have never been "ahead". It's always been "Intel inside" in the psyche of the people making the proper big coporate purchases (e.g. Dell, though they now buy AMD as well). Ask several plebs on the street to name a processor manufacturer and eventually you might get an answer: Intel. They are the CPU equivalent of "hoover" in the vacuum world. They could produce absolute pap for 20 years (they got away with it for nearly 10 years) and still be the market leader over AMD. It just happens that at the moment they've actually produced a range of really good chips.
 
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