IBM Takeover of AMD Speculations Arise
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From: Airman Thunderbird on 27 Jan 2008 10:00 Reminds me of that old Chinese curse, (that's appropriate these days, ain't it) "May you live in interesting times". >>> Can't see this happening to be honest. If it however does happen it >>> could lead to interesting times ahead.
From: Yousuf Khan on 27 Jan 2008 10:17 Charlie Perrin wrote: > On the other hand, had they paid more attention to Steve Jobs' > requests for a low-power POWER Architecture chip, the whole Intel Mac > situation would have never developed. It was likely to happen anyways, as Mac sales was being held back by lack of compatibility with Windows. Yousuf Khan
From: Mike Ruskai on 27 Jan 2008 22:34 On or about Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:46:52 GMT did Steven Stone <xxspfleck(a)xxcitlink.net> dribble thusly: >IBM sold off their PC division to Lenovo. Why would they want AMD ? http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/x/rack/x3455/specs.html http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/x/rack/x3655/specs.html -- - Mike Ignore the Python in me to send e-mail.
From: Folk on 28 Jan 2008 12:33 On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 22:34:10 -0500, Mike Ruskai <BUTthannydI(a)DONTearthlinkLIKE.netSPAM> wrote: >On or about Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:46:52 GMT did Steven Stone ><xxspfleck(a)xxcitlink.net> dribble thusly: > >>IBM sold off their PC division to Lenovo. Why would they want AMD ? > >http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/x/rack/x3455/specs.html >http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/x/rack/x3655/specs.html Heh. You're a bit late... http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/141836/lenovo_enters_the_server_business.html
From: Mike Ruskai on 31 Jan 2008 11:45
On or about Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:33:32 -0500 did Folk <Folk(a)folk.com> dribble thusly: >On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 22:34:10 -0500, Mike Ruskai ><BUTthannydI(a)DONTearthlinkLIKE.netSPAM> wrote: > >>On or about Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:46:52 GMT did Steven Stone >><xxspfleck(a)xxcitlink.net> dribble thusly: >> >>>IBM sold off their PC division to Lenovo. Why would they want AMD ? >> >>http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/x/rack/x3455/specs.html >>http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/x/rack/x3655/specs.html > >Heh. You're a bit late... >http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/141836/lenovo_enters_the_server_business.html Hardly. From the article: "IBM will continue to distribute System x servers under its own brand name, said Tim Breuer, an IBM spokesman. IBM is not worried about competition from Lenovo, Breuer said, adding that the deal would in fact boost IBM's licensing and financing business." Of course, I'm not sure I see a real benefit (for IBM) to an AMD acquisition. There'd definitely be a big benefit to AMD and its customers, if only from IBM's manufacturing capacity. -- - Mike Ignore the Python in me to send e-mail. |