Ten Big Companies That Are Veering Toward Bankruptcy

[InFireBaptize 0]

http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/336235/Ten-Big-Companies-That-Are-Veering-Toward-Bankruptcy?tickers=AMD,LVS,S,M,GT,MYL,HTZ

bad or good news for AMD owners? does it mean cheaper but unreliable products from AMD? the 5000 series supposed to launch near the end of summer, would that mean lower prices? what if they go bankruptcy.

[Maddmatt 1]

It would be bad news if Nvidia was left without competition :(

[.kju 3245]

Don't worry. Intel will buy the good assets..

[echo1 0]

It would be bad news if Nvidia was left without competition :(

Not with Intel moving into the graphics market this coming year :p

[Deadfast 43]

I'd be more worried about the CPU market.

[InFireBaptize 0]

Not with Intel moving into the graphics market this coming year :p

or maybe ASUS!

[echo1 0]

ASUS is making GPUs? This is news to me...

I'd be more worried about the CPU market.

Hear hear.

[InFireBaptize 0]

Not with Intel moving into the graphics market this coming year

and i said: could be ASUS, they can afford AMD can't they? But i guess better for Intel to do so because processors will be like a wedding band in Intel's finger!

[echo1 0]

No, I doubt ASUS are anywhere near profitable enough to be able to afford AMD, and I'm not sure if they'd even want to buy AMD, seems a bit too detached from their current focus.

Intel would never be allowed to buy AMD because of competition laws, and also, buying AMD doesn't bring them anything of use - Intel's chip are from a technical point more advanced than AMDs, and they have their Larrabee GPU on the way. Unless of course they do what they did to DEC's CPU division and buy them out just to prevent other companies from using the designs :p

Likely buyers? I've read rumors about Samsung being interested in AMD. IBM could also potentially be a candidate, as they use Opterons by the bucket load for their mainframes and supercomputers.

Edited September 23, 2009 by echo1