To acquire a budd add unless that is on life support? To sell chips to Microsoft? Dell?
yo have x86 patents?
to acquire worse foundries?
There’s just no upside to this.
Unless Apple wants to get into the fabrication business. But that’s a money pit as they’d have to continuously develop and upgrade factories to compete against others for customers other than their own.
Not going to happen.
Tsmc is able to go do because Apple AND OTHRRS but there stuff. If Apple was to do this, they’d only be yhtt set it one customer snd it wouldn’t be sustainable.
Apple would buy Intel for one reason not mentioned. Intel is building a chip building facility to match Taiwan here in the USA. IF THaT HAPPENS, then Apple will have the final control of the whole ball of wax.
Baloney there’s no point in buying Intel, Apple might as well build their own facility from the ground up Apple does not need Intel for anything anymore, and please don’t hire any of their lackeys. Intel ex-employees can't offer anything to Apple except incompatible engineering confusion which comes by doing everything wrong for the last 18 years.
Quite an appropriate smackdown . But you have to wonder if we are feeding the beast by responding to crap like this.
It partially that but like that commerce secretary, who thinks Intel is still at the top of their game, many people on Wall Street and many people in the banking/finance industry, and much of the general public think Apple should do business like Microsoft or IBM because that’s all they know. Note that sentiment comes into play many times when someone on Seeking Alpha or some of the tech sites writes one of those Apple is doomed again stories. That sentiment also plays a part in buying shares in Apple computer with some people, it certainly played a part in the design department I worked in.
It's not the craziest idea. If the US is going to fund Intel's chip-fab efforts, and Xi seems committed to invading Taiwan, Apple will need US-based foundries or its hardware business will evaporate. Better for Apple to own Intel rather than it going to Samsung or Qualcomm. I'm guessing Apple would only be interested in the foundries, not Intel's chip designs.
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yo have x86 patents?
to acquire worse foundries?