AMD is said to take over FPGA manufacturer Xilinx
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devastator
does amd even have 30billion lol
Maddness
In cash, I certainly wouldn't think so. But they might do a cash amount and shares, which isn't a bad idea
Ahmad Bilal
such deals are generally never in cash (unless for strategic reasons). Given AMD's position, a huge part of the 30 billion bill will be in shares of AMD.
Interesting development nonetheless, for a company to go from brink of bankruptcy to this.
Vananovion
They can also borrow a big chunk of the money. I'm sure they wouldn't have a problem getting a loan after their growth over the past few years.
schmidtbag
No, but IIRC, they did just recently pay off all their debts. Now that they're in the black, I think they're willing to invest in other markets to maximize profit. If they're smart with Xilinx, that could be very profitable.
Kaarme
AMD has interestingly really loved to keep their long-term debt around 3 billion dollars. But I guess there's no inherent purpose in that. At the end of the day, especially Intel but also Nvidia have been buying various promising businesses left and right of late. Who knows, maybe AMD would have liked to do the same if they had had the dough. It'd be kind of dangerous for AMD if they can't even license technology anymore because Intel and Nvidia own all of it. Of course if AMD had a really good nose, they might be able to buy good stuff for cheap when it hasn't yet really proven itself and grown large, but somehow I don't think AMD really has got that ability. I mean, they were going all gung-ho about DirectX12 like stuff years before it had any meaning, they used HBM in gaming cards and still got beaten by Nvidia, their 1.5 core CPU tech didn't attracted people like Intel's hyperthreading, etc.
barbacot
No "end of the world we are doomed" like in a topic here where it was said that Nvidia will purchase ARM??? - I remember the crying, the revolt...
Oh, I forgot, AMD are the good guys.
theoneofgod
Okay
Vananovion
Nvidia taking over the ONLY supplier of a particular product.
AMD taking over ONE of possible suppliers of a particular product (there's at least 5 more not counting Altera).
Totally the same thing. /s
Denial
They aren't even close to the same thing man
KissSh0t
https://i.imgur.com/6Gmguze.gif
waltc3
nVidia paid $12B in cash to Softbank for ARM; the rest in nVidia stock...;) As mentioned in the thread, such deals are never leveraged all in cash... This would move AMD up the scale and make it even tougher for Intel to catch up, imo.
pharma
https://www.nextplatform.com/2020/10/09/pondering-that-rumored-30-billion-amd-acquisition-of-xilinx/
Agonist
Nvidia is greed trash. They do everything they can to be anti competition while being anti consumer.
AMD really is the good guys in comparison
All we gotta do is talk about gameworks, not even Physx or geforce experience.
Astyanax
Bad idea amd, the last time you took over a fab it drained your profits and sent you into oblivion.
Sith
Funny thing th CEO of Xylynx is of taiwanese origin Victor Peng and Lisa Su too.
Jen-Hsun Huang the CEO of Nvidia is tawainese too and is the uncle of Lisa Su.
I think these Taiwan engineers who became CEOs are all buddies or family members and are like a small conglomerate of firms who make deals.
The fact that Taiwan has so many engineers operating big semi-conductor companies tells me where the future is and it is South East Asia!
I dare to say if the chinese communist party disappears, the chinese nationalists who fled to Taiwan in the 1940s will make continental China like Taiwan!
The future of humanity seems to be in Asia!
Aura89
As much as i don't care that nvidia is buying ARM, so keep that in mind when i say what i am about to say:
How is it even remotely possible you could think of this as even being remotely the same situation?
Again, remember, i don't care that nvidia is buying arm, i'm not saying what i said because "oh i am just against nvidia buying arm", i'm not, i don't care.
Noisiv
A huge part?
How about all of it? AMD does not have 2 measly $ billions to rub together 😀
01 July 2020 they had total of 1.775 B of cash and cash equivalents.
devastator
yeah but nvidia has more cash and shares are worth more then amd so that why i said it with shares and cash didnt think it came to that much
sykozis
NVidia has a track record of buying "technology" and making it proprietary to lock out competition. Since ARM controls the mobile processor market, NVidia is a potential threat to the entire tech industry and consumers.
Xilinx has competition, unlike ARM. Nobody will really notice an acquisition of Xilinx except Xilinx, AMD and their employees.
There's a huge difference between buying 1 of many competitors in a huge market (that also includes Intel among competition) and buying the company that actually controls a market..... Even if the Xilinx acquisition removes Xilinx from the market, it will barely be noticeable, unlike ARM where any change will be noticeable.
