Rumor: Samsung to buy AMD

[JEMC]

Scoobes said:

JEMC said:
I hope it's not true.

Don't get me wrong, both of them would greatly benefit from this: Samsung (getting atents and an x86 license and AMD getting money, but what about us? Would the Samsung owned AMD still commit to make desktop CPUs and high end graphic cards, markets where Samsung have shown no interest?

Why wouldn't they?

Ka-pi96 said:

You'd assume so, otherwise they wouldn't be thinking of buying them, would they?

Because AMD competes with both Intel and Nvidia by offering competing products at lower prices, so their profit margins are low. Why would Samsung care for those sectors when they can go for the server market which offers them bigger margins?

And while AMD could sell their products at a higher price to increase their profits, the AMD brand doesn't have a good reputation when it comes to CPUs, and in the GPU front Nvidia has very loyal customers that aren't shy to spent a bit more for their cards, unlike AMD loyals that take the better price/performance of their products to their hearts.