Didn’t they just lay off a not-insignificant number of people? :
LollipopChainsawZz on
How much debt does Intel owe? That will tell you if this gets approved or not. Regulators and the IRS ofc hate debts going unpaid just because a company goes under or they get bought out as an escape attempt.
belial123456 on
Theoretically, if Qualcomm were to acquire Intel, wouldn’t it break the x86 cross-licensing agreement between Intel and AMD? Without it Intel couldn’t make 64 bit x86 CPUs because x86-64 was developed by AMD. On the other hand AMD couldn’t use Intel’s instruction sets.
I don’t know how they might get around this but it might not be pretty for the future of x86.
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Didn’t they just lay off a not-insignificant number of people? :
How much debt does Intel owe? That will tell you if this gets approved or not. Regulators and the IRS ofc hate debts going unpaid just because a company goes under or they get bought out as an escape attempt.
Theoretically, if Qualcomm were to acquire Intel, wouldn’t it break the x86 cross-licensing agreement between Intel and AMD? Without it Intel couldn’t make 64 bit x86 CPUs because x86-64 was developed by AMD. On the other hand AMD couldn’t use Intel’s instruction sets.
I don’t know how they might get around this but it might not be pretty for the future of x86.
Will this even be approved by regulators?