Amazon Considering Buying Texas Instrument's Chip Business.

[Linux-SWAT]

http://slashdot.org/story/12/10/15/143247/amazon-considering-buying-texas-instruments-chip-business

 

[mcobit]

Next Google will buy nvidias tegra

 

[ShleeDragon]

I think Google should buy AMD/ATI.... that company is totally and utterly boned because their management are incompetent.

 

[Foxgod]

Pandora 2, Amazon inside

 

[TrashyMG]

So they will have next day delivery?

 

[Binky]

Whty can't some of the big tech companies die, and make room for new ones?

 

[Exophase]

What experience does Amazon have making SoCs? No, making Kindles doesn't even begin to qualify :/


I don't even know how this sale works, there is TI proprietary IP inside OMAP SoCs that they use all over the place in their other products. Surely TI isn't keen on dropping their C6x DSP line too.

 

[2bit]

Noooooooo ! they better not . I like my calculators and books separate .

 

[skeezix]

I think (guessing, to be specific) the deal is TI is keeping its fab plants and other product lines, they're just handing over the keys for the OMAP line if the deal goes through.. ie: so Amazon coudl take it to anywhere to produce, but probabyl just keep it at TI (them being the experts.) Amazon would fund further direction, and make all the decisions over it. ie: Who gets to use it, being the key idea here, I think -- they think its a good platform, and they want it a bit cheaper for themselves long term, and maybe force others out.


No way Amazon would get any real equipment out of this, for the money offered thats bandying around.


This is all idle speculation of course, I have no points of reference


jeff

 

[ekianjo]

I think Google should buy AMD/ATI.... that company is totally and utterly boned because their management are incompetent.

Google is not that much in the hardware business. WHat is the value they would add to AMD/ATI ?

 

[Zip]

I think Google should buy AMD/ATI.... that company is totally and utterly boned because their management are incompetent.

+1

and Microsoft will buy nokia

 

[Linux-SWAT]

and Microsoft will buy nokia

They already have total control on them.

 

[Binky]

and Microsoft will buy nokia

buying nokia would be a great move for apple


lots of nice telecoms patents


big foothold in the dumbphones


mapping tools and software


ruins microsoft's placement in the mobile market

 

[Linux-SWAT]

ruins microsoft's placement in the mobile market

Ah, they have a placement ?

 

[Binky]

Indeed they do.


It may be on the bottom rung of the ladder, but they're there


There are smartphone(s) available running Microsoft software


Getting someone to buy them would be he next step