Samsung have a lot of hardware in the desktop space anyway. They have a lot of their products inside a lot of stuff. I think most people under estimate just how big and prevalent Samsung are.
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Samsung To Allegedly Acquire AMD To Compete With Intel And Qualcomm Head On
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Samsung have a lot of hardware in the desktop space anyway. They have a lot of their products inside a lot of stuff. I think most people under estimate just how big and prevalent Samsung are.
Soldato
If Samsung bought AMD say goodbye to Desktop GPU's as we know it and you want it.
i dont know, a 290x with Samsung ram would have been a nice card
Soldato
Samsung have no interest in the desktop PC market. Possibly if they bought AMD that section would be the first to be cut as part of the cost cutting exercise when a takeover has been done. They have just made huge inroads into the Indian mobile market which is one of the fastest growing tech markets at the moment. All the recent news seems to show expansion into the mobile and smaller tech markets. More likely they will take the GPU section and streamline it for this market.
AMD taking on Linux developers knowing full well what is to come ? Why is there a delay in the 3xx release ? DX12 overshadowing Mantle ? Stick another log on that fire.
AMD taking on Linux developers knowing full well what is to come ? Why is there a delay in the 3xx release ? DX12 overshadowing Mantle ? Stick another log on that fire.
Samsung have no interest in the desktop PC market. Possibly if they bought AMD that section would be the first to be cut as part of the cost cutting exercise when a takeover has been done. They have just made huge inroads into the Indian mobile market which is one of the fastest growing tech markets at the moment. All the recent news seems to show expansion into the mobile and smaller tech markets. More likely they will take the GPU section and streamline it for this market.
AMD taking on Linux developers knowing full well what is to come ? Why is there a delay in the 3xx release ? DX12 overshadowing Mantle ? Stick another log on that fire.
do you work for samsung? then how do you know Samsung have no interest in the desktop PC market
This was my first thought as well; as far as I'm aware AMD's x86 license isn't transferable and Intel won't grant one to Samsung.
AMD doesnt have to go away... just be owned by samsung leaving the license intact? AMD could just continue where it left off but with bigger pockets and taking orders from big brother samsung.. dont know if i actually like that part though..
Soldato
I guess its pure economics... the money they would make from the desktop GPU market is small fry to the mobile and server markets. Why continue to make a niche product when the money lies in integration, low power mobile and high end servers?
Do figures exist for how many high end GPUs sold worldwide? i would think the sale of servers and mobile parts ( and the margins ) would make the high end desktop parts look like small fry. The money is in cheap production and lots sold, not high end expensive chips with limited market. We like to think the high end market is "where is is at" but i imagine profit wise it is in stuff like mid range integrated laptop GPUs that make the real money for nvidia and AMD.
Companies like ocuk make nice money dealing with high end because they have a niche market and avid fans to spend lots of money... but big business spend more! and they dont want GTX980s
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The lightning uses Samsung ram iirc.
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Enough.
The first rule of Samsung is; you do not speak about Samsung.
The second rule of Samsung is; YOU DO NOT SPEAK ABOUT SAMSUNG.
The first rule of Samsung is; you do not speak about Samsung.
The second rule of Samsung is; YOU DO NOT SPEAK ABOUT SAMSUNG.
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I think this would be a good deal if Samsung can keep AMD working on CPUs and GPUs if however this takeover, eliminates one of those side of things from AMD, then i hope it never happens. But i got funny thing that if this does take place that maybe the gpu may disappear and samsung may focus on other things..
People that claim samsung just want to concentrate on mobile and will end up going the same way if they take over the AMD are just looking inside the box. Yea samsung currently concentrate on mobile but maybe they want to concentrate on other things and expand to desktop too? Buying out AMD would be the perfect way for them to do this. You don't know what Samsung has in mind so stop telling people samsung will take AMD mobile.
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This would give me a semi if it happened. Plus with scales of efficiency, maybe samsung could force AMD to make a profit.
Associate
Wrong way; AMD licenses 64 bit extensions to Intel; second in the FTC; Intel, AMD settlement there is a little clause FTC put into the contract to make Intel play fair if anyone was to ever buy AMD.
Clause is - first 30 days; Intel can't do a single thing about licensing; no lawsuits; no shutting down the licenses etc. After that Intel must nagotiate in good faith with the new owns on x86 license; and they have up to 1 year to come to terms for said license. If 1 year has past and there still no agreement FTC will investigate to make sure Intel went to nagoiate in good faith to renew the license for x86. If they didn't they will utterly hammered by FTC with possiblity of a break up.
The license won't be an issue; it will hang on if US goverment will allow the sale as they already said they would block the sale of AMD to middle east; as Samsung isn't middle east but SK; it might just go through.