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I think those rumors were spawned after leaks of "something big about to be bought", but it ended up to be Ageia who they had been eyeing for a while - notice how quickly they implemented PhysX onto the 8000 series cards?
I agree but you would be surprised how many people here think it's a bad idea for IBM. One or two people mentioned the possibility in the AMD forum recently and they got blasted for it. AMD should be bought and IBM is one of the best contenders IMO.IBM must be salivating hardcore however for AMD.
People said this about intel when AMD was on top, Not going to happen.
AMD was on top performance wise, but AMD has never been in a financial situation to buy Intel. They simply have never had enough money to do it.
Very, very true, but purchased they shall be. It's only a matter of time and who the buyer will be in the end remains to be seen. I can't see AMD continuing like this indefinitely. Sometime in the near future they have to show significant progress if not actual profit. Having one or two successful video architecture generations is simply not sufficient to make up for the past year and a half of inordinately high debt, ineffectual management and inadequate production.[RCKY] Thor;1032073403 said:nV certainly does have the cash/stock on hand to buy AMD, but there are several reasons why they wouldn't.
Anti-monopoly laws as discussed above
x86 licensing issues (between amd and intel) that would prevent the transfer of technology to a new company.
And the biggest in my mind
Who would want to take on the roughly 5 Billion-with-a-B debt that AMD has itself in at the moment?
Their is also a mention in that article that the "x86 license" that AMD holds would be void if nvidia purchases it, but not IBM, someone please explain that to me.