The Wall Street Journal reports a deal was discussed, but is "far from certain."
    • Korkki@lemmy.worldEnglish
      113·
      2 months ago

      What makes you think that consolidation of markets isn’t how the free market operates as it matures? As if the X86 market was any way competitive and healthy before when there are literally two companies sharing critical patents with each other and gatekeeping the competition out.

      • TheWilliamist@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        There are three, I think VIA still has a foot in the game. There were quite a few companies that clean roomed, licensed or extended the x86 platform back in the day. My first machine had a NEC V20 in it and I had 386 machines with AMD, Centaur, and VIA chips…

    • stupidcasey@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      This can go exactly Two ways.

      1. The Us government says it is national interest to keep chip manufacturing owned by Americans.

      2. The Us government says we understand this will create a monopoly but we won’t stawp, due to the rise of Chinese chip manufacturing.

      But make no mistake this is not intel’s or Qualcomm’s decision and it has nothing to do with what either company needs it is entirely up to the Us government.

  • sorghum@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    281·
    2 months ago

    My gut says this would kill x86_64 and by extension AMD. My kneejerk reaction is no way this would pass regulators (monopoly).