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Posted on 04/01/2026 11:02:40 AM PDT by algore
In a move that feels less like a corporate transaction and more like the final punchline to a 40-year industry rivalry, AMD announced Wednesday that it has agreed to acquire Intel, the company it has spent decades chasing, imitating, undercutting, suing, licensing from, and lately outperforming.
The all-stock transaction, which AMD described as a "once-in-a-generation opportunity to unify x86 innovation," would combine the two companies under a single umbrella just a few years after such an outcome would have sounded ridiculous.
For most of modern computing history, Intel was the empire and AMD the scrappy survivor, the perpetual second source that somehow kept finding ways to stay alive. Now, after a bruising run of manufacturing delays, product stumbles, strategic resets, and a historic reversal in investor confidence, Intel is poised to be absorbed by the smaller company it long treated as a footnote.
If completed, the acquisition would instantly create the most awkward family reunion in semiconductor history.
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About time!
Check the calendar, naturally ... :-)
Which judge will try to block it.
Intel became woke long ago.
April 1
What the —-???!!!
With all the surrounding chip developments in the last decade and depending on the fortunes of AMD and Intel at this point, I think a merger or acquisition between them was an inevitable outcome. AMD seemed to have proved itself more innovative and nimble than Intel, over time, so it came out ahead.
April Fools.
At press time, the companies said the deal was expected to close shortly after the industry finished checking the calendar.
I only caught that after scrolling down, sadly. Thank you.
Good one!!
Back when I was a MS Nerd I always bought AMD machines.
But then I switched to Apple and was married to IBM–Motorola chip sets.
Then Apple switched to Intel and I was back to the evil Intel.
Now it seems my next machine will be AMD again.
My head is spinning.
AND Microsoft is bringing back Windows Vista!
I went to AMD after Intel’s 24 core CPU I bought for my gaming box was discovered to be defective :-/
It seems they compromised the cpu to make it look a bit better in revues, least that’s what I heard rumors of.
funny
Can’t believe other fell for this joke.
Now post another article about how Microsoft is starting to listen to its customers.
Seems more like an opportunity to monopolize it.
NASA is launching a lunar mission today too.
Microsoft always listens to its customers, at least the ones who are large corporations or Governments.
consumers are an afterthought at least on the OS side of things
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