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What would motivate this
by electronbeam 2y ago
What would motivate this
- Arn_Thor 2y agoWhat’s bad for US semiconductor manufacturing (I.e. a poor and cash starved Intel) buys China more time to catch up to frontier fab tech. If Qualcomm buys Intel, the optimistic scenario (for the US) is a stronger domestic player.
- osnium123 2y agoYes. This would also give more volume for the existing Intel factories.
- qwytw 2y ago> stronger domestic player Is it though? Qualcomm is more likely to just strip Intel for parts than to turn it around and we'll just end up with more market concentration and less competition.
- Arn_Thor 2y agoI did say “the optimistic scenario”, not “the only/likely scenario”
- electronbeam 2y agoIf that were true they’d denial-of-service every possible merger
- kube-system 2y agoGeopolitically you can't ixnay everything, you've got to pick your battles.
- pwython 2y ago"So, why is Qualcomm under so much pressure? China is one significant reason. China is one of their critical worldwide markets and both the US and China governments seem to be increasing pressure on various US companies, including Apple, Qualcomm and Google." https://www.rcrwireless.com/20230911/uncategorized/kagan-how-qualcomm-is-dealing-with-growing-china-problem https://www.rcrwireless.com/20230911/uncategorized/kagan-how...
- quantum_state 2y agoFrom some perspective, governments of the big markets are like gangsters…