Intel screwed up so badly we just desperately need any competent company to make a better, more competitive go of the GPU and CPU markets.
Well said, but you're quite a joker here. Since basically
anyone would be better than Intel itself at designing chips at this point – They just lost their slack and any expertise well over a decade ago.
Broadcom would eventually help correcting the course towards any sane return to normalcy, save what salvageable and rescue given division, which ain't too much corrupted to be saved yet – Tossing the rest for cents on a dollar afterwards and help to smoke out Intel's decades-old well-trotted paths of everlasting complacency and hubris.
Since for a start, I can't really remember too much nonsense, broken devices or sh!tty implementations from Broadcom they made yet. Unlike Intel,
Broadcom hasn't single-handedly bricked millions of mainboards with their flawed Broadcom-NICs nor did they turned tens of millions of Raspberry Pies all around the globe into basically eWaste with their flawed chips, like Intel does on the regular!
Broadcom has over a trillion dollar market cap value by being 'behind the scenes'. It's the ninth most valued company in the world.
Didn't we all knew that Broadcom was prone to act upon it and that Trillion-dollar valuation and wouldn't've had let that chance of a life-time passing by unused, as their valuation rose towards 1Tr USD?
Intel has a lot of competing IP in the network, edge and FPGA space that would be valuable to Broadcom.
I think the only useful for Broadcom would be especially everything network and maybe edge.
FPGAs I think could be already a tad bit off for Broadcom and possibly gets sold anyway to Lattice, MicroChip or Achronix.
If name recognition is needed, Broadcom can launch a huge ad blitz and even rename the joint venture into Broadtel or something similar.
No offense here, but that's the for sure the dumbest thing I've had to read the whole week now! You're joking, right?
Their own Broadcom-brand is
times more valuable and has a way higher actual brand-recognition than anything Intel by now, especially in the
actually professional field of networking and computing. Meanwhile Intel has burned most of their
actual reputation the last years, notably since AMD's Ryzen, with brain-dead, mud-throwing and back-handed false marketing …
Also don't underestimate the huge societal changes society went through the recent years via gaming and everything technology!
The societal awareness before technology in general and especially anything computing has newer been so high and at the forefront of society –
Everyone now knows what a computer is and how Office works! This isn't the 80s or 90s anymore, were only geeks, computer hobbyists or programmer were aware of computers and what a processor is. The last two generations being raised using consoles and today's kids battling each other in chat over their consoles' specs is no joke to play with.
People are more informed than ever before.
Since most actually
informed people already well-deservedly associate anything Intel since 2018
either with hardware, which is riddled with never-ending security-flaws
or a low-performing expensive wannabe-deluxe alternative as a neat remembrance of the past – Even at consumers, the reputation is down to a
all-time low. Their CPUs literally dying now is also something which will stick in the back of the head for a long, long time at end-suers nor will the influential crowd of
informed end-users forget Intel-CPUs as the prominent power-hungry heating-devices with embedded calculator-functions for years to come.
In the corporate world, at enterprises and other professional businesses, Intel now has to
look upon a almost foreign territory of scorched earth for them. No-one really trusts them anymore nor will the corporate world of professionals forget anytime soon, how Intel jacked up their price-tags during the
completely self-inflicted shortages over the aftermath of Meltdown, Spectre, Foreshadow & Co. The overtime and stress Intel brought over the computing world, when their flawed CPUs had to be basically halved in their compute-capabilities world-wide overnight (over Intel's utterly broken Hyper-Threading), won't be forgotten that quick, let me tell you that.
Worse, even the crowd of public pencil-pushers, usually deaf to any technology, as well as the corporate generally and proudly tech-
unsavvy yet sharp-minded bean-counters, had to take suddenly notice of Intel's jacked up price-tags, when the crowds of paper-pushers from accounting all of a sudden had to re-schedule bugdets (at overtime,
minutes past regular working hours!!), which were otherwise since decades set
once at the start of the fiscal period of the department.
No … Today, if anything, Intel is mostly known for "quality and performance, like it used to be" only still around the circles of (often bribed) academics (or other highly-educated rented loudmouths), and their even less informed corporate counterparts of perfect idiots (or the usual crowd of not even remotely any tech-savvy complete morons of most public IT-departments).
Other than that, especially Intel's
Xeon-brand in the server-space, is already basically mostly dead and a reason to look for alternatives – VMware's utter price-jacking also didn't really helped to leave the argument of any strategy of platform-homogeneity as a final kicker for Intel. Never mind Intel's inferior metrics for years on end on price, performance, efficiency and power-draw,
cooling-ability coolability, security or the corporate's world and businesses' need for predictability, with Intel having ever so often sneakily evovled their road-maps into factual "rolling releases".
That being said, if that deal goes through with Broadcom eventually taking over the whole of Intel's former product group and basically Intel as a whole
as is, save anything manufacturing … Then I wouldn't be even remotely surprised, if Broadcom not soon after ditches everything datacenter-CPU aka Xeon as a whole to either
IBM (if they even feel like it, for reasons of compatibility),
Google (to play with it) or
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE, for nostalgic reasons of rememberance).
… or in a brilliant move of royal cajolery and rip-off to
Facebook for a unheard of sum, while they somehow managed to convince Facebook, that they now would "never again have to buy any CPUs ever again"!
Since not only is the Xeon brand as a whole exremely tranished by now in the business-world, but even the technical base for it from Intel is way too outdated technologically, to keep it running and bring forward any new products, to keep it within the portfolio – Save the few low-volume halo-SKUs, which are expensive asf to manufacture anyway.
Thus it would be basically mostly dead capital for Broadcom, so the chance of them selling Xeon as a whole I would consider as not really low.
