[ASalazarMX]

Intel squandered its dominance on the CPU market for decades. Qalcomm sucking the remaining life of it would be a fitting end for a player that lost its way.

Wonder if the increasing backwards compatibility became too much to bear, but IMO it never really tried to tread new grounds for risk of losing a comfortable position.

[Varloom]

Qualcomm main business is mobile phone chips and 5g modems.

Majority of it's revenue goes to Taiwan for TSMC as margins.

Having Intel fab, will cut the middle man, and revenue will skyrocket, all while no money leaves the USA.

[rlyno]

Qualcomm should buy capacity from Intel, Intel can wind down x86 slowly as it shifts to foundry (implementation of the how is Intel’s core engineering product this whole time)

A monolith will drag both down