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Really? Name a single successful Intel acquisition, especially open source.
by pinewurst 5y ago
Really? Name a single successful Intel acquisition, especially open source.
- belval 5y agoI read your statement and I thought "should be easy to find at least one"! Turns out it isn't: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel#Acquisitions_and_investments_(2010%E2%80%93present) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel#Acquisitions_and_investm... Not only does none of these ring a bell, all the software ones seem to be legitimate garbage. Why did intel buy a cloud gaming startup?
- kgc 5y agoMaybe acquihires
- svnt 5y agoThe non-chip business at intel is a sideshow of uncommitted grasping.
- FunkyDuckk 5y agoAltera?
- tinco 5y agoThey bought a drone company that had built a single drone that was better than all competing drones in the market, and then they stopped it. No more support, no more new development, no more production. So senseless.
- NicoJuicy 5y agoMobileye ?
- BeetleB 5y agoBought for 15B. Net profit in 2021 was $1B. It'll take a while to get their investment back. Not sure I'd call it a successful acquisition.
- colinmhayes 5y agoThey're trying to IPO mobileye for $50B. If they can pull that off the acquisition will have been a major success.
- pinewurst 5y agoBut not an intentional one. They bought it as a "hey we're relevant too!" move at peak autonomous car hype, and as it's hardly additive in real life, are trying to IPO it for the dumb money before they have to write it off (e.g. Habana).
- NicoJuicy 5y agoPeak autonomous hype would be when it's there. And there is too much money in it to never be there, to although I think it will take longer than most predictions. And net profit while amount of employees have grown 5 fold. Growth of 24% yoy is pretty good.
- Tobu 5y agoWind River seems like it did okay. Bought for $884 million and sold for $4.3 billion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_River_Systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_River_Systems