AMD says it will buy Intel, completing the strangest reversal in chip history

[Darkhand]

Let's see what DoD says about it.

"The outcome of this acquisition will depend on the amount of 'donations' we receive from both companies. Please stay tuned."

 

[Gars]

Name it something more modern - Fake Day
lol

 

[DrSuess]

It would never happen. An AMD purchase of Intel would never pass the required monopoly regulatory hurdles.

 

[bamit99]

Well played!

 

[rickyc]

I didn’t even read it - obviously an April fools joke - I might believe it if nvidia were purchasing intel with their huge valuation

 

[rickyc]

Also, intel still outsells AMD in general , I believe - AMD would not have the capital to buy intel , surely ? Nvidia and Intel joined would be the ultimate tech monopoly

 

[tsvenkat]

If this really happens, AMD can totally give a different meaning for the label "Intel Inside".

 

[Later]

AMD was considered the poor people cpu when Intel Pentium was on top. 20+ years later Intel is the lame one on the bottom. How does it feel Intel, satisfied, I hope you choke on it !

 

[banggugyangu]

This is probably the highest effort April Fools joke I've seen from a tech blog. Bravo, TechSpot. Reading this on April 2nd, I legitimately believed it until I was taking a screenshot of the headline and noticed it was from yesterday. Well played indeed.

 

[DdubbleR]

You haven’t been paying attention to the US regulators bosses recently. Multiple antitrust issues have been overlooked, often following a generous donation from the monopolist.

That’s honestly what made this believable: the recent utter nonsense that was previously unthinkable. The US retroactively turning the Chip act into a partial purchase of Intel for instance.

... Come on guys! You can do better than this! The best April Fool's jokes have some level of believability and this scenario has literally NONE.

This merger is literally legally IMPOSSIBLE as it would create an x86 CPU monopoly that controls about ≈85% of the world's laptop and ≈95% of the world's desktop & server CPU markets... The US government would NEVER allow this.

Next time pick something that could ACTUALLY HAPPEN.

If King Drumph gets a big enough cut/bribe, it certainly will be approved!!

 

[bviktor]

Yeah, good luck pitching this to regulators.

 

[scavengerspc]

This is probably the highest effort April Fools joke I've seen from a tech blog. Bravo, TechSpot. Reading this on April 2nd, I legitimately believed it until I was taking a screenshot of the headline and noticed it was from yesterday. Well played indeed.

Same here. I didn't notice it yesterday, and didn't until this morning.
So yeah, that was a cold water on the face wake up.

 

[MiqWalsh]

What the heck does the date have anything to do with this? Glad for amd coming ahead for once. This puts them that much closer to nvidia now. That's the real rivalry.

Rivalry? Nah. Not 'rivalry' at ALL. Never that. With Jensen Huang and Lisa Su being cousins, it's more a case of 'keeping it in the family'...

Lololol!!!

Miq.

 

[TrevorDennis]

WTF indeed! I didn't see that coming and can hardly believe what I am reading. There will be a LOT of dedicated Intel CPU users who won't trust the hardware going forward — starting with me! Most of the hardware related issues we see on the Adobe forums are with AMD kit, albeit mostly with their GPUs that don't always play nicely with Adobe apps. Realistically, I am sure it will be fine, but that is not stopping me from feeling the start of a panic attack.

 

[havok585]

What is the point of these "articles" ? the 2nd you see the date you give it away.

 

[beavacuda]

I've been subscribed to, and viewing TechSpot, via email newsletter longer than I can recall (far longer then this registered account) and VERY rarely comment, but this was a doozy.

1) I figured I woulda saw news of this already, but it's well within the realm of reason I missed them.
2) Intel has been struggling so hard, for so long, this is well within the realm of plausibility. (Antitrust hurdles hadn't yet occurred to me.)
3) MOST importantly, I'm reading this a few days after the key date this was published, and my guard was down.

I was reading this with credibility into the second summarizing paragraph until I went "HOL' UP", checked the publish date, and skipped to the bottom. Lol, BRIEFLY got me.

Well done! Whatever the source, I commend most attempts at April Fools' Day jokes, but most are obvious, and/or sadly, lame. This again, was awesome. Kudos to the writer and the TechSpot team.

Tl;dr: this was great!

 

[ManMeat]

Imagine the chaos if this was real

 

[loki1944]

"The outcome of this acquisition will depend on the amount of 'donations' we receive from both companies. Please stay tuned."

You don't understand; AMD cpus simply do not exist in DoD Only Intel. That is a security decision.