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Samsung To Allegedly Acquire AMD To Compete With Intel And Qualcomm Head On

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A fresh report from South Korea has just surfaced with claims that Samsung will allegedly attempt an AMD buyout to compete with Intel. The report claims that the Korean giant will attempt to acquire AMD and merge it with one of its subsidiaries. Note, thanks Serge for the tip !

Read more: http://wccftech.com/amd-allegedly-merge-samsung/#ixzz3VPuEYWRS
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According to the report Samsung’s aim is to secure both CPU and GPU IP from AMD. Then use the IP to fuel future growth opportunities as well as put itself in a more favorable position to compete against its equally large rival Intel and its smaller but still very successful mobile rival Qualcomm.
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Is this necessarily a good thing? Samsung are obviously heavily invested in the mobile space. I'm just thinking that their motivation is likely to strengthen their mobile division and use of AMD tech and patents to further that side rather than taking on established players like Intel and Nvidia in the desktop segment.
 
Yeah it would only be a good thing imho.

Maxwell was made to scale from mobile low power use to desktop GPU's. Maybe Samsung could develop something awesome with AMD that could scale mobile to desktop as well.

Samsung as a brand might have more pull as well. Might be what ATI/AMD need to keep going gain strong market share..
 
A healthy market is good for everyone. Samsung certainly has the money to back such competitiveness so I can only hope it is true.
 
Slightly concerned that they will completely ignore the desktop processor and maybe even the GPU market.

The only reason Samsung would want AMD is for its mobile, low power IP's surely?

If they keep AMD on the same course that'll be great of course.
 
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Slightly concerned that they will completely ignore the desktop processor and maybe even the GPU market.

The only reason Samsung would want AMD is for its mobile, low power IP's surely?

If they keep AMD on the same course that'll be great of course.
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This was my first thought, but like others have said, they'd be able to bring a lot of money AMD's way!

I'd quite like to see this happen tbh, could be the kick that AMD need.
 
I always thought Samsung should enter the console hardware market to shake things up with Sony and Microsoft.

..this could open the way up for them to do so.
 
Awesome news if true. :eek:

Most of the electronics I own is Samsung... they make some great hardware and with their resources they are bound to be a worthy competitor if the will to compete with Intel/NVidia is there.

Soooo... when is the Samsung Radeon R390X released? :p
 
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In a business point of view it's more of a chance of Samsung moving into the server space market. Seeing AMD already has a presence there, Samsung could easily compete with Intel in this space. With AMD's experience and Samsung's funding and manufacturing it could create some very good competition for Intel.

The only thing I can see going into the mobile space is possibly AMD's GPU, although wasn't there rumours of Samsung developing their own mobile CPU+GPU designs? There's also AMD's ARM based K12 as well but I would imagine that will be too heavy for mobile use. Perhaps the second generation of it though...

Still, this is only a rumour, but if true it should be good for consumers in the long run.
 
If you look at Samsung's recent results, and analysts predictions for their Tech and market share, the bubble may have burst for them, and they could be in a bit of a downward spiral at the moment.

Certainly their tech margins are shot to pieces...

Maybe be a case of out of the frying pan and...
 
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