EETimes has released a news story suggesting that Intel would be interested in buying AMD or, at the very least, hiring its CEO, Dr. Lisa Su. The site claims that some Intel C-Level executives commented on the company's interest during CES 2019.
If the news had been released 10 years ago, it would probably be treated as an immediate truth by many readers. Incidentally, this rumor has been circulated in other times. However, the situation of the two companies was very different from what we find today. The CES 2019 itself served to clarify the current momentum of both chip makers.
Intel has restarted its Lakefield (Foveros 3D) platform which, while looking promising, is not yet very well targeted in the market, nor does it have partners in sight. At another point in the presentation, she unveiled the Project Athena, which promises to be a kind of second revolution in the ultrabooks segment. Finally, she spoke of her new line of processors that, in short, will debut a microarchitecture made at 10 nanometers, and that should only reach the market in late 2019.
AMD has re-introduced the new 64-core 64-core EPYC Rome, citing Ryzen's third-generation launch, due in mid-year, with a 7-nanometer manufacturing process, and has returned to the high GPU market -end for gamers with Radeon VII, the first 7-nanometer video card, and announced its partnership with notebook makers to implement second-generation Ryzen mobile CPUs.
In addition to the antitrust laws that could prevent AMD from being acquired by Intel, if that merger were to happen, AMD would have more to lose than to win. Without counting the market in general, since the two companies have been blocking a competition in the segment of CPUs that we had not seen since the beginning of last decade.
In addition, the blue team company has hired part of the team that developed the Radeon Vega GPUs, including its leader, Raja Koduri, in late 2017. Intel's next step in the GPU segment is to compete fairly with AMD and NVIDIA, from the launch of its first dedicated video card, planned for 2020.
If this move of Intel translates into more board options and lower prices, then let's leave things as they are. SOURCE (S) TECHRADAR
In addition to the antitrust laws that could prevent AMD from being acquired by Intel, if that merger were to happen, AMD would have more to lose than to win. Without counting the market in general, since the two companies have been blocking a competition in the segment of CPUs that we had not seen since the beginning of last decade.
In addition, the blue team company has hired part of the team that developed the Radeon Vega GPUs, including its leader, Raja Koduri, in late 2017. Intel's next step in the GPU segment is to compete fairly with AMD and NVIDIA, from the launch of its first dedicated video card, planned for 2020.
If this move of Intel translates into more board options and lower prices, then let's leave things as they are. SOURCE (S) TECHRADAR
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