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Definite Non-Expert Opinions: From a quick peek (Yahoo! Finance web site), Q has about 2X the market cap of I, so it's plausible-ish there. Q looks to be a US

Definite Non-Expert Opinions: From a quick peek (Yahoo! Finance web site), Q has about 2X the market cap of I, so it's plausible-ish there. Q looks to be a US company, so probably no "can't sell America's critical technology companies to foreigners" veto from the US Govt. I don't know what the anti-trust situation would look like...but the US Govt. has some history of blatently ignoring such things when they think something is vital to their interests. Huge question in my mind: Why would Q pay that kind of money? (Yahoo! sez I's market cap is ~$93 billion, and companies are usually bought at a substantial premium to that.) I is in an extremely complex business, and seems to be in seriously deep do-do. Sure, on paper, Q could get their hands on all sorts of awesome assets from buying I. But, on paper, the Titanic and her contents were still worth a fabulous fortune an hour after her infamous bump in the night. Speculation: Talk about Q buying I is just a means to an end. Test the waters. Pour some blood into them, to see what's attracted to the struggling I. Check whether futile-looking struggles and more bad news could further tank I's market cap. Q might consider buying I, if the price was dirt cheap - but mostly they hope to buy the specific parts of I which they really want, after the sharks tear I into pieces.

osnium123 2y ago
The US government (CFIUS) had blocked the sale of Qualcomm to Broadcom, even though Broadcom had agreed to move HQs back to the US because they were concerned that Broadcom would kill the work that Qualcomm was doing on 5G and beyond networks
christkv 2y ago
The EU would probably block this
jmclnx 2y ago
I think Qualcomm wants Intel to get on the US Federal $ gravy train, or maybe a bigger slice of the pie. PLus Intel's patents. If Qualcomm pulls this off, I would not be surprised if Intel pieces are sold off, with Qualcomm keeping the patents and enough of Intel to get Fed $.

osnium123 2y ago

The US government (CFIUS) had blocked the sale of Qualcomm to Broadcom, even though Broadcom had agreed to move HQs back to the US because they were concerned that Broadcom would kill the work that Qualcomm was doing on 5G and beyond networks

christkv 2y ago

The EU would probably block this

jmclnx 2y ago

I think Qualcomm wants Intel to get on the US Federal $ gravy train, or maybe a bigger slice of the pie. PLus Intel's patents. If Qualcomm pulls this off, I would not be surprised if Intel pieces are sold off, with Qualcomm keeping the patents and enough of Intel to get Fed $.