Uh-Oh this cant be good

i didnt even read the whole thing...and i cried...But i dont believe it. what about AMD's new bulldoser models coming out? 8 and 16 cores?
 
doesnt mean they wont come out it just means that they may come out with amd being a subsidery of another company like dell
 
I think someone needs to buy Dell and dismantle the company. It is one of the worst companies I have ever dealt with. They have high prices, low quality and are the most useless group of people I have had the misfortune to deal with.
 
I hope it does not happen,I like AMDs products and i think if Dell took over it would go downhill from there.

I cant see why AMD would do this though,They just brought ATI and everything lookes like it was going to be great,bulldozer to look farward too and future AMD graphics cards aswell.
 
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If dell is very hands off it won't be a big deal, actually would help AMD in profits, I mean they would be able to clearly sell an AMD based PC at a much lower cost to an Intel based system.
That being said I pray it never happens because if by chance they ruined AMD, well it would mean prices for chips would increase.
 
I think that it is unlikely atm but if bulldozer comes out and flops then this will be a serious possibility as otherwise they may not have enough investment to continue and this could be there only option. (I hope not)
 
Nevakonaza said:
You never know,Anythings possible these days. :cool:
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Nope ain't going to happen. If AMD is bought, the company that buys it loses its X86 license. Non transferable. AMD is worth around 6 billion, its 2.4 billion in debt. Alot of money just to get ATI. And Intel sure isn't going to transfer the license to Dell, when Dell sales models are 95% Intel CPUs.

Just a bunch of Internet monkey talk.
 
StrangleHold said:
Nope ain't going to happen. If AMD is bought, the company that buys it loses its X86 license. Non transferable. AMD is worth around 6 billion, its 2.4 billion in debt. Alot of money just to get ATI. And Intel sure isn't going to transfer the license to Dell, when Dell sales models are 95% Intel CPUs.

Just a bunch of Internet monkey talk.
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Well i dunno if this is true, apparantly AMD came to an agreement with intel so they dont have to pay for the license and in exchange intel doesnt have to pay for 64bit patents held by amd.

http://www.guru3d.com/news/amd-no-longer-pay-x86-license/

Basically if intel take the license for x86 amd could then do the same for it's 64 bit patents.
Plus this is buisness regardless of the above if dell (or another buisness) wanted it that bad and saw a good revenue stream from it a deal would be worked out with intel so that it could still be done, thats buisness is.
 
Bla Bla Bla.... nonesense....

AMD is not being sold.. it is just some rumor to get traffic to people websites..
 
Thank goodness this is not true. Dell is a horrible company and Advanced Micro Devices is just the opposite. Support AMD! Buy their awesome products!
 
innercx said:
Well i dunno if this is true, apparantly AMD came to an agreement with intel so they dont have to pay for the license and in exchange intel doesn't have to pay for 64bit patents held by amd.

http://www.guru3d.com/news/amd-no-longer-pay-x86-license/

Basically if intel take the license for x86 amd could then do the same for it's 64 bit patents.
Plus this is business regardless of the above if dell (or another business) wanted it that bad and saw a good revenue stream from it a deal would be worked out with intel so that it could still be done, thats business is.
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Thats just for royalty free fee from the license itself. Plus I think the agreement gave AMD the right to outsource more % of CPU production, (global foundries) without a certain % of ownership. As far as I know the X86 license itself is still non transferable if ownership changes hands.

The reason for the non transferable was to keep a huge company from buying AMD out and going after Intel itself. The only company I could see buying them would be IBM, they already have a X86 license which would bypass the issue. But I dont really see IBM wanting AMD anyway.

Oh yeah, it was oracle a few weeks ago.

Apple was going to buy them last month.
 
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I don't think there is anyway that AMD will be bought out by a computer manufacturer. You gotta figure that if that happened, the computer manufacturer would either (1) scale back operations and only make chips for themselves, or (2) continue selling to other computer manufactures.

The first option seems unlikely because it would be a massive scale back from providing chips to all computer manufacturers to going to only providing for one. I don't think it would make much sense to buy such a huge company to just have to liquidate most of it. The second option seems just as unlikely, because then other computer manufactures wouldn't want to buy AMD, because they would just be giving business to their direct competitor.

I just don't see it happening.
 
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