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I remember when they did random stuff like the whole IoT push (frankly, their offerings made no sense to humble me .. Microsoft had a better IoT than Intel). Th
by brutus1213 3y ago
I remember when they did random stuff like the whole IoT push (frankly, their offerings made no sense to humble me .. Microsoft had a better IoT than Intel). They did drone crap .. gave a kick ass keynote at CES I recall .. also .. made little sense. Finally, the whole FPGA thing .. makes little sense. So much value being destroyed :(
- stefan_ 3y agoI remember when they bought a smart glasses company then refunded every buyer ever the full retail price. There hasn’t been an Intel acquisition that has worked out in some 20 years now it seems. Just utterly unserious people.
- CoastalCoder 3y ago> There hasn’t been an Intel acquisition that has worked out in some 20 years now it seems. Maybe Habana Labs? I can't really tell if it's working out for Intel, but I do hear them mentioned now and then.
- TylerE 3y agoIsn't that true for virtually EVERY big tech merger? Like, which ones have actually worked?
- dangrossman 3y agoGoogle built its core advertising ecosystem on acquisitions (Applied Semantics, DoubleClick, AdMob, etc) and extended it into the mobile space by buying Android.
- erik 3y agoYoutube was also an acquisition. Haven't heard much about successful Google acquisitions lately though.
- murderfs 3y agoAndroid and PA Semi have worked out pretty well...
- landryraccoon 3y agoFacebook bought Instagram and WhatsApp and they were both home runs. Zuckerberg knows how to buy companies.
- bee_rider 3y agoThat’s a different type of acquisition, right? Buying your competition. If nothing else you’ve wiped out a competitor.
- TylerE 3y agoEven that sometimes flops (HP/Compaq)
- baq 3y agoFacebook bought their eventual competitors by making an offer they couldn't refuse. Zuck knows Metcalfe's law.
- landryraccoon 3y agoInstagram and WhatsApp are still popular with consumers though. Meta didn’t kill them, if anything they’ve grown significantly.
- photonbeam 3y agoThere are the occasional good ones, like instagram. But I guess thats the problem - I had to provide an example
- FullyFunctional 3y agoMostly true, but there are exceptions: Apple does really well on its rare acquisitions, but they aren't very public as they get successfully absorbed. PA Semi, Intrinsity, more I can't remember. ATi and Xilinx have by all accounts worked out really well for AMD.
- scns 3y agoThe iPod
- moondev 3y agoNvidia Mellanox
- nsteel 3y agoBroadcom is a good example of successful mergers.
- sam_bristow 3y agoThe Altera (FPGA) acquisition could have made sense, but they never really followed through and now it's being spun off again.
- pclmulqdq 3y agoThere were some technical issues with the follow-through that they didn't foresee. CPUs need to closely manage their power usage to be able to extract maximum computing power, and leaving a big chunk of static power on the table in case the FPGA needs it. The idea of putting an FPGA on a die was mostly killed by that. Regarding other plans, QPI and UPI for cache coherent FPGAs were pretty infeasible to do at the sluggish pace that they need in the logic fabric. CXL doesn't need a close connection between the two chips (or the companies), and just uses the PCIe lanes. FPGA programming has always been very hard, too, so the dream of them everywhere is just not happening.
- FullyFunctional 3y agoThat was not the point of the Altera acquisition. The point was the fill Intel's fabs, but the fab fiasco left Altera/Intel-FPGA without a product to sell (Stratix 10 -- 10nm -- got years of delay because of that). Meanwhile Xilinx was racing ahead on TSMC's ever shrinking process.
- krautt 3y agoi was a process engineer there in the early 2000's, they did crazy random shit then too! they had an 'internet tv' pc that was designed to play mp4's in 2001.