How is looking for a buyer failing? You are so deluded if you think that if they sell there will no longer be any AMD CPU's. Man really get a grip. It is not the end of the universe for god sake. Companies buy and sell all the time yet since this is AMD it some how makes them special? What is so special about a business? They are like any other business if they feel that the time is right to sell they will the CEO's will get big fat pay checks and so will the Owner of AMD. Nothing new there.
No you do not have a grip on this at all. You see this as the END and nothing more. The end of the PC industry and the end of technology moving forward. Well my deluded friend you are so wrong.
It's good for the CEO, but not good for the consumers.
If we had Cyrix (RIP), Via, IBM already established in the desktop marketplace still things would be fine. But any new entrence wouldn't survive it's launch date. Intel will just sue them for something tivial and they'll be broke in a few months of fighting lawsuits. With Intel remaining enjoy changing sockets once and paying £500 for a CPU.
Our only hope is an established corporation like Microsoft or Apple go into the desktop processor marketplace or the buyers of AMD are 100% comitted to continuing to strive in the desktop microprocessor business.
Everyone does understand AMD is "to big to fail" Intel will bail them out before they fail remember if Intel takes the only seat as an x86 manufacturer (Via is to small to be considered) they will be called a monopoly and broken up by the US government. It would be way easier for Intel to simply buy the AMD stock and keep the company afloat.
Heck Microsoft did the exact same thing to keep Apple alive in 1997->
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Microsoft issue was a lot more complex. Microsoft had their hands in more than just the OS pie, they were told to split mainly because they were using their OS to push out competing third party software companies. i.e. Internet browsers, media players, video encoders, word processors etc as many Microsoft biased software was integrated into the OS which was unfair.
The Government would only get involved if Intel started integrating their CPUs into the motherboards and soldiering RAM onto it, that would put all the motherboard and RAM companies out of business. Thus, the Gorvernment would order Intel to play fair or split!
But you are right for different reasons, Intel might bail AMD out to get access to renewing existing licences and patents. Who knows Intel might buy AMD outright and own it - for the sake of the patents.
Also, there is talks of Sony using AMD's APUs on their next generation console. If that is official, Sony might bail AMD out to stop the PS4 sinking.
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