According to South Korean media, Samsung is negotiating to buy CPU manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices. Seoul hopes that the purchase will allow them to break into the market leaders chips for mobile devices and PC. It's not just about the processor, but also on the graphics cores.
AMD is one of the largest manufacturers of chips for PCs and laptops, as well as graphics processors. Produces its own decisions and Samsung - combining technical developments and production capacity, the Korean company expects to become one of the biggest players in the market to compete with Intel and Qualcomm.
Samsung also will have access to large blocks of patents owned by AMD, which will allow the company to significantly improve "stuffing" manufactured devices. Koreans are particularly interested in developments in the field of AMD graphics cores. AMD can also learn a great deal from the cooperation. Samsung has much greater resources that will enhance the development of new technologies.
You can argue long about what benefits promised parties such transaction, but first we should remember two serious obstacles. First, the South Korean giant to sell AMD can only after consultation with a number of regulatory authorities. However, South Korea is considered an ally of the US, and significant bureaucratic Samsung would be in this case to avoid certainly succeeded.
Second, the transfer of rights to develop the x86-compatible processors to new owners in the face of Samsung should be agreed with Intel, which holds a decent set of relevant licenses.And the behavior of the processor giant in this situation it would be difficult to predict. On the other hand, Intel representatives recently made it clear that they no longer believe his rival AMD, and see the main rival ARM and its licensees. Again, Samsung is a customer of ARM, and the size of the budgets of even hard to compete with Intel Korean conglomerate.
It is understood that at the moment the information about the possible purchase at the level of rumors. Even if the negotiations between the two companies is really underway, it is not necessary that they run successfully.