Insider reveals AMD nearly bought Nvidia, but Jensen Huang killed the deal

[Redaktion]

A former AMD engineer, Hemant Mohapatra, recently revealed that AMD had almost bought Nvidia. The ex-employee says that the deal fell through because Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, didn't want to sell unless he became the CEO of the merged company.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Insider-reveals-AMD-nearly-bought-Nvidia-but-Jensen-Huang-killed-the-deal.858555.0.html

[Superguy]

Huang would have been a good CEO for a combined AMD/Nvidia. He probably would have turned AMD into a powerhouse much sooner had he taken over.

[indy]

Huang would have been a good CEO for a combined AMD/Nvidia. He probably would have turned AMD into a powerhouse much sooner had he taken over.

Alternatively, it could possibly drag both stocks down as Nvidia has pretty much been rising since the 90s, while AMD has always struggled managing their diverse chips.

When you lose focus, performance tanks. (See Tesla after Twitter debacle for an example.)

Also Hwang has passion for Nvidia; that wouldn't necessarily transfer to AMD.

[NikoB]

Most likely, NVidia will buy AMD to get all x86 patents at once. )))

But in general, the value of any company in the world is key human capital, which cannot be physically tied to the company, except in a slave system (elements of which, for example, are clearly present in current US labor legislation). If key people leave and their skills are unique, the company is over, no matter how rich and successful it seemed in the past. The closest living example is Intel.

[NikoB]

And the Boeing case only confirms the general degradation of the capital system in the pursuit of profit and nothing more. This is again a property of key human capital and, in general, the fault of the society (civilization as a whole) in which such companies can operate. The lower the general level of civic responsibility (and, accordingly, activity) in society, the closer such a country is to totalitarian practices in legislation and a gradual slide into imperialism (if, based on past achievements, it was possible to sharply get ahead in scientific and technical progress relative to other countries), and then ordinary fascism. This is what we observe in almost all of the modern world (mostly without the stage of imperialism, for obvious reasons), where the level of real education and outlook of the majority of the population is steadily falling (and at the same time the desire for critical thinking and rational behavior is falling and passivity and humility are growing and indifference to all manifestations of evil), and does not grow against the background of scientific and technological progress.

In the USA, as scientific tests show, the level of education of young people is continuously falling, otherwise it leads to fatal systems of problems for the entire society in the future. A hegemon without brains quickly becomes an arrogant dictator of the agenda as long as the strength remains in the "muscles". And when it runs out, a systemic collapse occurs.

Modern Russia has clearly demonstrated (after Germany in the 20-30s of the 20th century) what happens in the end. The USA and Europe are moving there at a rapid pace. And if there is no "island of adequacy" left in the world (which is what everything is heading towards globally), then what will happen to the world? It will be a gloomy and dreary waste of time (perhaps centuries) of civilization in the fight against the inexorable and ruthless forces of nature.