AMD's Dirk Meyer: We're Not for Sale (but Pitch Your Offers Anyway)
AMD's Dirk Meyer: We're Not for Sale (but Pitch Your Offers Anyway)
Posted 10/07/2010 at 10:31am
| by Paul Lilly
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Oracle's chief executive Larry Ellison recently said his company would like to make some acquistions in the technology sector, adding that a microchip company would look mighty fine in Oracle's portfolio. Could AMD be a target? Would the world's No. 2 chip maker even be open to buyout? The answer to both questions is 'maybe.'
"AMD is not for sale, but we are happy to listen to any proposal which is in the interest to our shareholders," chief executive Dirk Meyer said during an industry conference in Barcelona this week.
Shares of AMD haven't exactly been scintillating as of late, but the chip maker hopes to turn that around with the introduction of its Fusion chips, which integrate graphics onto the CPU. The company is also facing increased competition from ARM, though Meyer said he doesn't really view ARM as a threat to its bottom line.
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misha573
October 07, 2010 at 1:08pm
Dirk, don't even joke about that. Larry is buying up everything! He just got sun (and the SPARC tech) don't let him get his grubby hands on AMD, ever.
IMO that's just as bad as if Intel bought AMD. Oracle might not be a player in the desktop market, but they are in the server market now. They buy AMD and you reduce competition there. They might just choose to axe SPARC or Opteron...as well as they might keep both to appeal to multiple tiers in the market. But, the uncertainty and speculation is there.
Further, what will happen to high-end consumer graphics under Oracle? These guys know nothing of that demographic. Oracle is a corporate player that originates very little (they've bought nearly all their portfolio)...AMD would be assimilitated into the Oracle collective and would loose its identity. If this happens we may never see a kick-ass radeon ever again!
It's happening to Sun (Java, MySQl, etc.).
In the end though if they want to nothing really can stop them. Resistance is futile.
strangelove9
October 07, 2010 at 11:39am
If Oracle is referring simply to "microchips", Ellison is welcome to buy PositiveID Corporation, and he can then spend the rest of his zillions fighting those who think that implantable chips are "the mark of the beast".
If he's thinking CPUs, then why necessarily AMD? Why not VIA? Or even better, why not ARM Holdings? If Oracle gets to own the brain of the Apple iP*** devices, the legal battle that's been going on among the two technology companies suddenly gets very interesting.
*edit* for those who are curious, why not check out http://www.arm.com/products/processors/cortex-a/index.php and look at the number of recent processors aimed specifically at "high-performance computation for web infrastructure applications"...
Zachary K.
October 07, 2010 at 10:39am
"AMD is not for sale, but we are happy to listen to any proposal which is in the interest to our shareholders"
translation "tell us we're pretty and worth something"
BTW, you didn't close off that quote with a quotation mark.
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