7 points

What how? Intel is still huge compared to Qualcomm no?

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Intel is about 5 times the size of Qualcomm in terms of equity.

i found this article:

Intel’s shares closed up 3.3%, while Qualcomm fell 2.9%. Qualcomm, with a market capitalization of $188 billion, is worth about twice as much as Intel.

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So based on Intel’s shitty stock price, Qualcomm can buy a good chunk of Intel which is enough for voting power I guess. Someone please correct me or add insight to this.

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I knew intel have been doing horribly recently, but they are only $83.3B market cap, I had no idea they shit the bed this much.

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Intel’s assets are worth more than Intel’s market cap. That’s how badly they’re doing in the stockmarket, and also shows you how market cap is a fairly irrelevant indicator of a company’s value.

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I’m actually surprised it took people this long to realize how truly horrible Intel leadership has been over the past 2 decades.

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If this comes to pass, it’s remarkable to think about how close we might have come to a timeline where Broadcom acquired VMware, Qualcomm, and Intel.

A chill just went down my spine.

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Broadcom owns Qualcomm too?

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No, but they attempted a hostile takeover in 2017 that looked close to succeeding before the President issued an executive order preventing it.

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They wanted to, and Qualcomm’s board blocked it. They tried to go forward anyway, and Trump stopped them in 2017.

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8 points

I often wonder how such an approach actually happens. One person sends the other a message via Tinder?

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So this is how the tech dark ages start. The last 40yrs are erased, and we end up back in 1979 where everyone is selling a tech stack and nothing is compatible.

Rebuilding around something which isn’t C would be a bright side.

Qualcomm buying Intel would be a top 3 worst case. Broadcom or Marvel would be the other two.

Some funny scenarios: Nvidia buys Intel, IBM buys Intel, Apple buys Intel.

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They’re not buying the whole of Intel. It sounds like they want to buy one of their divisions, probably their PC division.

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