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Microsoft might be interested in buying AMD, according to source
Posted on 6/29/15 at 5:55 pm
Posted on 6/29/15 at 5:55 pm
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In a bid to revive its chip design operations, Microsoft Corp. may acquire Advanced Micro Devices, according to a source familiar with the matter. The software giant approached AMD several months ago, the source indicated. The result of the talks is unclear.
Microsoft Corp. has been selling game consoles for over ten years now and back in 2006 the firm even formed a division to design chips for its products, primarily game consoles. While this internal group has clearly developed some chips for Microsoft’s hardware, the company used chips designed by Advanced Micro Devices and Nvidia Corp. for its Xbox One consoles and Zune players, respectively. As it appears, Microsoft’s own chip design team cannot really develop competitive solutions for the company’s devices and in order to make its chip operations viable.
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Posted on 6/29/15 at 6:06 pm to stout
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In fact, current value of AMD is three times lower than the company paid for ATI Technologies in 2006.
Now that's depressing.
Would be good for both parties, though. Microsoft owning the chipmaker for both the PS4 and Xbone...
There were also rumors of a potential split, a separate spinoff for the GPU unit.
Posted on 6/29/15 at 6:18 pm to stout
interesting
Posted on 6/29/15 at 7:23 pm to stout
Curious to see how that would shake out
Posted on 6/29/15 at 7:25 pm to Mr Gardoki
Falling into the same trap again. I thought they were finally past getting into the hardware business.
Posted on 6/29/15 at 7:30 pm to stout
Vertical integration in the tech industry usually sounds better than it turns out
Posted on 6/29/15 at 7:33 pm to stout
AMD is a crap processor. Don't see how M$ can make it worse.
This post was edited on 6/29/15 at 7:34 pm
Posted on 6/29/15 at 7:43 pm to 3nOut
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AMD is a crap processor. Don't see how M$ can make it worse.
This level of stupid is normally limited to comments on Tom's Hardware articles, or Youtube.Posted on 6/29/15 at 8:09 pm to ILikeLSUToo
Man you guys are hard on toms
Posted on 6/29/15 at 9:03 pm to Mr Gardoki
Because most of it is crap...
Posted on 6/29/15 at 9:41 pm to 3nOut
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AMD is a crap processor. Don't see how M$ can make it worse.
AMD processors aren't crap, they just given up on enthusiast level processors. They are still real good for a mid to low end computer. Honestly, I wish the Microsoft and Sony used Intel and nvidia processors for their consoles but that would cost them a lot more.
Its hard to believe during the Pentium 4 era, AMD processors blew Intel's out the water. How the might have fallen
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