According to recent rumors Microsoft is allegedly in talks to acquire semiconductor manufacturer AMD. The talks supposedly began a few months ago.
Buying AMD makes sense for Microsoft, an obvious immediate benefit would be the savings on Xbox One’s APU. Funnily enough it would mean Microsoft, via AMD, is also powering both PS4 and Wii U, a situation neither Sony or Nintendo would be able to change until their hardware refreshes. That said Xbox is not the only reason they might want the CPU/GPU giant though, it’s probably not even the main one. If the buy-out were to happen they could have cheaper access to AMD components for other hardware, like tablets or phones. Which is likely the largest driver of Microsoft’s interest.
AMD is currently valued at $1.81 billion USD, while Microsoft has ~$95 billion in cash. So it’s completely within the realm of possibility.
What do you guys think? I like AMD personally, I currently have an Intel processor + Radeon, before in my previous build I had an AMD processor + a GeForce GTX. I want to see them stick around and I think this might be a good fit.
Source: KitGuru
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What the hell is AMD doing, only valued at 1.8 billion? they paid almost 3 times that much for ATI only 9 years ago!
Because they have been constantly loosing money a company’s value tends to drop when they don’t make a profit. Doesn’t help that there competition has the majority market share in both CPU;s and GPU’s.
and to think that a company like whatsapp was valued at 19b in half the time.
WhatsApp is a rare exception…I never understood how it was valued so frickin high!!!
exactly!
Companies evaluation has nothing to do with their real value, (never was, never will), but with expectations.
They had some really bad CEO’s since then who made poor choices. Sucks because the new one is quite smart and doing good things, but has had to clean up a lot of messes.
They’ve been dominating because of decades of anti-competitive practices.
http://www.reddit.com/r/amd/wiki/sabotage
getting their fat a*s kicked by nvidia up and down the block
if this is true, then im definitely switching to nvidia, long time ATI/AMD user here.
You would have switched to Nvidia anyway because AMD would have eventually gone bankrupt and their top engineers would have gone to Nvidia as well. At least AMD has hope of staying afloat and even competitive if Microsoft buys them.
Rumour makes no sense at all.
Wow, 1.81 billion, that’s pocket money for Microsoft. If this happens it will be horrible since Microsoft are one of my top hated companies for what they did with Windows and their anti-trust Windows software. Leopard never changes it’s spots.
*bill gates pocket money
As greedy money b**tards Mocrosoft are,imagine what could they do to the amd gpu performance with their mega budged if they wanted to in like 2 years,beat da sh*t out of Nvida .But then again,why would they try to make them faster,that would f’ up the their peasant X box sales,and all they console games.
Agreed….that is why this is very bad news if true and MS actually acquires AMD.
Whoa, AMD is only worth $1.8b? Oculus Rift sold for more than that and they weren’t even producing anything.
That’s a lot less than MS paid for Minecraft
Spencer, what’s up with you never going with an Intel/ Nvidia setup? It’s the best!
I go bang/buck. That’s it. My loyalty is to my wallet so last time around that was AMD CPU + Nvidia GPU, this time it would have been AMD CPU + AMD GPU but I decided to go with an i5. I kind of regret not sticking to my bang/buck policy to be frank, not that there’s anything wrong with my i5 but I just feel better about my purchases when I know that price/performance was the deciding factor.
That goes for anything, not just PCs.
Gosh, stop being so reasonable!
It is actually quite refreshing to hear valid reasoning once in a while.
Yeah, I can understand that. I don’t buy anything unless it’s on sale. Finding a good deal is like an art.
No and H*ll no. While there is the possibility AMD might get properly updated drivers. The trade is not worth it.
this could go wrong for Nvidia in DX12 benchmarks !
oh oh uuuups
No need AMD already dominate there.
http://cdn.videocardz.com/1/2015/06/AMD-Radeon-R9-Fury-X-DXAPI-overhead.png
i hope this happens since im getting a r9 380 soon
This is bad.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
This effin cannot happen! This will give MS more power to continue their BS…and become even more greedy!
It is incredibly funny how rumors are consider to be somehow a real deal these days^^
LOL
This will be good for pc gaming because mircorost will destroy ps4 that way. So then since the xbox console will be the only console in the market they will start releasing more and more games on pc .
You’re so very wrong. The only reason why PC is getting a low level graphics APIs now, is because AMD went to the trouble of spending over $100M in MANTLE. It lead to their continuous investment with OpenGl to make now Vulkan. Had they belonged to Microsoft, that would not happen to this day. Microsoft doesn’t want PC to outshine their idiotic console (they control all software in that crappy hardware assembly). nVidia sells more cards if the games are performing poorly.
Competition is always good. And this is definitely not it.
This could go both ways. Better competition for Nvidia and Intel (higher budget) = lower CPU and GPU prices or AMD’s fall to ruin = Higher Intel CPU and Nvidia GPU prices. Let’s pray that if this ever comes true it will be the first case that happens
I see this as something positive. Better drivers and compatibility for AMD hardware in Windows…and also this may lead to better products in the future for the company.
This will make Nvidia step up even more…more competition, better hardware and hopefully getting more powerful.
This negativity about everything in this site (comment section) is getting out of hand.
People care too much about who owns companies and such…you only have to care about the product that they deliver, how they work and the cost for you. No more no less.
Bad news for Nintendo Sony and Nvidia if that really happens.
If microsoft buys AMD ?
Does this we will get better gaming performance AMD GPU with windows 10 ?
and the best part better drivers too ?
Yes definitely.. but in new product only… microsoft will hire entire silicon valley to make all in one product (hardware and software).
i think most of the people will move to AMD if this is true!
i agree with you this time 100% !
Witcher 3 tesselation non-sense x64 had impact on AMD cards and Nvidia Kepler GPU’s!
anti-competive even with their own company!
No doubt, but decades of backroom deals to make sure AMD didn’t get a fair shot at the market. Also your response tells me that you didn’t actually read of it.
Please dont be real, please………… -________-
Nokia is not ruined,Microsoft did great job saving that company.And new Nokia/Microsoft phones are Great, From Low to High end.
Lumia 930 User Here….
AMD, beware of the ides of NOKIA…
AC Unity, a modern worst case scenario is “pushing in excess of 50,000 draw calls per frame”.
AMD-promoted Oxide’s engine tech showcased “strategy game” was seen peaking at ~38k drawcalls @ 30fps (mantle). that’s like 1.1m drawcalls/s (?)
good luck finding a game pushing anywhere near 15m drawcalls/s in Fury X lifetime, reflecting that API benchmark.
AMD has competitive hardware but the “Nvidia gameworks” things made the game run terrible in AMD cards. those conspiracy make AMD card just Intel HD alternative.