AMD announces agreement to buy out chipmaker Xilinx for US$35 billion, just a month after NVIDIA's ARM acquisition

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One month after NVIDIA acquired ARM, AMD announced a US$35 billion buyout of chipmaker Xilinx. The major acquisition is set to significantly broaden AMD's pool of engineers and could give the company a vital edge over a struggling Intel.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-announces-agreement-to-buy-out-chipmaker-Xilinx-for-US-35-billion-just-a-month-after-NVIDIA-s-ARM-acquisition.499492.0.html

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This is mostly for industrial use like server farms and has very low meaning for the consumer.

While NVIDIA'S ARM purchase has a much stronger impact on both on the consumer and industrial sector.

This seems like a wasted 30B+ acquisition and what's worse, Xilinx has been losing a lot of money lately.

This is great news for an Xilinix shareholder but this really sucks extremely bad if you're an AMD stockholder.

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Since when is Intel fabless? Even if you have your own manufacturing, prototyping still costs you a lot of money. You still have to pay the people, materials and machine time. You can only save the profit margin since it's internal cost. And it might not be that bad. They stand to make a lot more on volume manufacture of a finished design. They want you to succeed. This shouldn't be a problem for companies that are already established (they have the capital and confidence to commit to wafer volumes). Also, you don't need that many FPGAs for prototyping. And I'm not sure how big a role they play in CPU, GPU or mobile SoC development. Those chips are big and cutting edge. Also, their design is not naturally FPGA friendly. Your first line of defense against errors is software and companies like AMD can afford the best there is (which is eye-wateringly expensive). It would be interesting to know what kind of success rate someone like Intel has on first pass and how they achieve it.