Ansolutely. Ill go further to say they should buy Cavium and an S-ASIC vendor (eASIC or Triad) to have a pile of SoC tech that can be applied in most applicatio

Ansolutely. Ill go further to say they should buy Cavium and an S-ASIC vendor (eASIC or Triad) to have a pile of SoC tech that can be applied in most applications plus an option for rapid development of non-performance-critical chips. They already have fabs for sensitive stuff, too, but I dont know how they perform. Maybe buy one graphics vendor next. And they're covered in desktop, servers, laptops, and many purpose-built appliances. The stuff might also be scaled down or sold low margin for embedded where microcontrollers might have been used. Russia has the money. There's a number of vendors with the tech. They should just buy their way into the high end.