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China and the EU would never allow an Nvidia Intel merger, not under any scenario the US would find acceptable. They'll barely allow Nvidia to acquire anybody
by adventured 2y ago
China and the EU would never allow an Nvidia Intel merger, not under any scenario the US would find acceptable.
They'll barely allow Nvidia to acquire anybody at this point, no matter how small. See recent EU response to Run:ai. Intel would be considered 100x worse.
- FredPret 2y agoWhy would China and the EU have input on a US merger?
- tiahura 2y agoDo they want to sell pentiums in China or EU?
- maeil 2y agoIf this is a rhetorical question, just make your point instead. If not, look up e.g. Microsoft 's purchase of Activision, both US companies.
- Cumpiler69 2y agoBecause Intel, AMD, etc have offices in EU and China, for sales, distribution and also R&D. If you intend to operate in those markets you need to comply with local regulations.
- adra 2y agoThe same reason as anything else. If the merger goes ahead with opposition from foreign markets, those markets can impose import tariffs or outright bans. Smaller markets may be ones these combined companies are willing to piss off, but not Europe. Their opposition is defacto a deal killer.
- corimaith 2y agoThey literally don't any serious homegrown alternative though, they'd be effectively forfeiting the AI race
- mnau 2y agoChina doesn't care. They are banned from buying western AI HW or making their own AI HW at TSMC/Samsung. They are pouring hundreds of billions to the semiconductor ecosystem. Huawei is trying to make establish domestic Ascend/MindSpore ecosystem, but they are limited by the SMIC process (~7nm). Amount of defects is allegedly rather high, but they are the only "official" game in town (other than smuggled NVIDIA cards or outsourced datacenters in Middle East).
- corimaith 2y agoThen the point about China trying to block a Nvidia merger doesn't really sense if they will be going their own path anyways. It would exist to try to harm Nvidia before their homegrown alternatives ramp up.
- mnau 2y agoNvidia is only one side of merger. The other is Intel. Intel does sell processors in China. Only AI is banned, not generic CPU (except HPC).
- Wytwwww 2y ago> Why Well they obviously would.. Also EU has promised various significant subsidies to Intel. They obviously has fabs in Ireland and building one in Germany and perhaps even Poland..
- lmm 2y agoThey wouldn't, but companies at this scale are global, regardless of where their nominal headquarters or stock listing is.