[tcoppi]

Any acquisition of AMD will be seriously complicated by potentially needing to re-negotiate the patent cross-licensing agreements with Intel. There are lots of companies that could have been great buyers for AMD in the past that have passed or not even looked into it because of this, I don't think it will change for the foreseeable future unfortunately.

[arcanus]

> re-negotiate the patent cross-licensing agreements with Intel

I've always wondered why intel does not buy AMD... is it just because of an expected anti-trust lawsuit? With Nvidia, ARM, IBM, it does not seem that a monopoly in x86 would dominate ALL architectures, but perhaps it would not be viewed that way.

[tcoppi]

Probably anti-trust, otherwise I think Intel would have bought them a few years ago just for the huge discount on their graphics division, which Intel has never seemed to be able to do well.