Resource Bright Side Of News, citing its sources, writes that one of the founders and CEO of Nvidia, Jen-Hsun Huang, can become the new head of Intel.
And then the company itself Nvidia can be acquired by Intel.
It is known that before Intel had already attempted to absorb Nvidia (after AMD had swallowed ATI), but Jen-Sen Juan himself, widely supported by the board of directors, did not agree to the terms offered by Intel. In addition, there were serious doubts that the US antitrust authorities would allow this merger.
The possibility of obtaining the position of general director of Intel may change the position of Jen-Sen Juan.
The current market value of Nvidia is $ 7.82 billion. Taking into account intellectual property and other assets, the value of the transaction may be twice as high. But Intel can well afford it. Since for one 2011, Intel's net profit reached $ 12.9 billion with revenue of $ 54 billion.
With the acquisition of Nvidia, Intel will finally be able to use the latest Nvidia GPU technologies in its Intel Core desktop processors and surpass the rival
AMD Fusion processor line in graphics power.
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The reviewers of Bright Side Of News say: “Nvidia has proven that it can compete in almost any market. And if it gets access to Intel resources, a lot of things on the market can change. ”
On the one hand, of course, the management and shareholders of Intel cannot fail to notice that, despite the current financial well-being, Intel has already become an old and cumbersome corporation that is mired in bureaucracy and cannot react quickly and change quickly in accordance with the demands of the market (competitors are developing new processors much faster than Intel). And hiring Jen-Sen Juan to work, they could expect him to reform Intel and try to teach the elephant to dance (as German Gref and Sberbank, for example, do this in Russia, see:
Dance teacher. An excerpt from a book about Sberbank and German Grefe "Elephant on the dance floor" ).
But I think that the management and engineer of Nvidia, who have so successfully undertaken to develop
Nvidia Tegra mobile chips based on ARM architecture, are unlikely to be able to refuse this soon.
And if at the helm of Intel Corporation, Jen-Sen Juan himself will appear, then soon Intel itself, apart from its x86 processors, will start developing more advanced and energy-efficient mobile ARM chips.
And in my opinion, in addition, Jen-Sen Juan, while carrying out reforms at Intel, will most likely seek to split Intel into two separate companies as it was done during the restructuring of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) - one Fab-less-company without its own production and another factory for stamping chips like
TSMC . “Because, as I recall, he himself spoke more than once in different interviews, the fact that Nvidia is a Fab-less-company is its advantage.”
And the big question is whether Intel shareholders want it? ..
What do you think about that?
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