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Why would TSMC want to buy factories from Intel? Intels plants are far from start of the art. Given their inability to compete and catch up with TSMC
I think the reason is obvious...it has no choice
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Since reading a Gibson novel that mentioned the dystopian mega tech conglomerate (DatAmerica maybe?), I've always enjoyed the mental exercise of M&A to create a monster corporation. Intel + Broadcom + IBM + HP + Oracle + Apple + Google They'd from Chips to Cloud.
What would HP bring to this hypothetical merger?
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Since reading a Gibson novel that mentioned the dystopian mega tech conglomerate (DatAmerica maybe?), I've always enjoyed the mental exercise of M&A to create a monster corporation. Intel + Broadcom + IBM + HP + Oracle + Apple + Google They'd from Chips to Cloud.
What would HP bring to this hypothetical merger?
Right now, I'm imagining AMD as Danny DeVito's character, Frank Reynolds, in that episode of Always Sunny where the gang wrestles for the troops. He's the Trashman, which is an awful wrestling persona, but at the end of the match, everyone else is seriously injured on the floor of the ring. With a bewildered look on his face, he slowly raised his arms, and the crowd went wild. Sometimes you just gotta stick to the co…
> Sometimes you just gotta stick to the core competencies and stick to them well. Part of me thinks this is what Radio Shack could've made work. They almost made it to the point in time where hobbyist electronics / maker culture was popular again, but by that time they were just the place people used to buy cell phones from.
Things Broadcom would do: sell you a chip, nerf if after a year and charge you a subscription to unnerf.
Look at what they did to VMWare. If you were a VMWare customer you were and are in deep shit right now. The fact this conversation between Intel and the Grim Reaper is taking place means everybody, from consumers to OEMs to clouds need to divest away from Intel today.
Sell what you have while you still can get some cash for it and remove it from consideration for any future plans.