Semi-Accurate says AMD is imploding cause Management doesn't understand semiconductors.
I wonder what Amazon would do about the calculators?
TI makes good calculators.
I hate this news! TI is/was a great company with a lot of history. Started by a few people in oil exploration, Geophysical Services Incorporated (GSI). They needed instruments to further their success so they started TI so they could make their own electronic instruments. TI became very successful and eventually became the parent company.
Has Amazon ever made a profit? I know TI use to. Heck, they actually made things, too. Those were weird times, eh?; making things that you sold to make profits. Now you just sell hype, and profits are what traders make.
The title is misleading. Apparently, AMZN is only look at part of TI.
I controlled a $1.5 million budget right out of college to install their 1st local area networks and PC-based distributed computing infrastructure.
Oh how I loved the extreme technical prowess and responsibility / opportunity they gave to young people, but hated the management environment (>100 hr work weeks, vacillating plans, tiny incomes).
We had 5 divisions:
1) Semiconductor manufacturing
2) Defense
3) Metallurgy
4) Geophysical
5) Personal devices
What is Amazon going to do with Raytheon and all the government contracts.
Amazon voluntarily acquired Texas (sales) taxes. That was enough for me to drop them.
The trade rags also report that STmicroelectronics is interested in divesting of their digital business - which includes the types of processors like ARM SOC’s that would be involved in Kindle follow-on’s. It might actually be a better fit as ST also has significant software and design capabilities that could vault the Kindle into more sophisticated space.