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It's not only interesting, it's inevitable. The writing is on the wall after Intel acquired Altera. Actually just several weeks before Intel announcement of Alt
by teleforce 4y ago
It's not only interesting, it's inevitable. The writing is on the wall after Intel acquired Altera. Actually just several weeks before Intel announcement of Altera acquisition, me and my friend who has worked with Intel before were discussing when the inevitable will happen, i.e. Intel buys Altera. Intel is the client of Altera and vice versa, for a long time.
Intel also has agreement with AMD, if any their staff members wanted to quit they cannot go to work directly under their direct competitors immediately after they quit (from Intel joins AMD, and vice versa.) So what any smart Intel engineers would do is to join Altera when they quit Intel. The acquisition is really inevitable because it makes perfect sense from the business, technology and human resources point of view.
- ncmncm 4y agoNone of this explains what value AMD or Intel get from the buyouts.
- teleforce 4y agoNot sure exactly what value you meant here, I've already mentioned that they (Intel and Altera) are customer of each other, and getting one of the critical supply chain elements under your company is a big plus. Also Intel senior engineers have been using Altera as stepping stone since forever, and to remove one of your competitors that frequently sucks out your experience engineers in a highly specialized field of chip design is totally worth it. But hey, as they always said not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
- ncmncm 4y agoIntel has not shown much evidence of worry about losing staff, and anyway Altera was only a little net. And, it doesn't explain AMD's or NVidia's purchases.
- teleforce 4y agoIntel's bosses are most probably losing sleeps on the limited talents available especially the more experienced engineers, and the lack of talents trend is pervasive in the electronics industry: Where Are the Microelectronics Engineers? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32012660 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32012660