Dirk Meyer: AMD is NOT Up For Sale!
Despite rumors of an Oracle purchase, AMD is not up for sale.
Last month Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said during an analyst meeting that the software company may purchase chip manufacturers without specifying likely targets. Ellison added that "silicon is important," and that the company was focused on building its intellectual property portfolio.
Speculations arose, causing shares of ARM Holdings Plc to rise 6.1-percent after the comment while Nvidia took in a nice 3.9-percent jump. AMD shares also shuffled thanks to growing rumors that Ellison had his eye on the second largest x86 CPU manufacturer, however AMD's CEO has now set the story straight.
"AMD is not for sale, but we are happy to listen to any proposal which is in the interest to our shareholders," Chief Executive Dirk Meyer said Wednesday during his keynote address at the Canalys Channels Forum 2010 event in Barcelona, Spain. Meyer must leave the proposal option open for shareholders as AMD is a public company.
Four years ago ATI CEO Dave Orton had a similar stance against an acquisition before AMD assimilated the GPU manufacturer for $5.4 billion in July 2006.
Wednesday AMD shares were up 5 cents (0.7-percent) to $7.03.
Depending on the details, AMD shouldn't brush-off a potential sale. They could definitely use more cash to help their business, that $1.2billion Intel paid them off with recently only went towards debt. Although, I don't know what Oracle does with "silicon", but they just purchased Sun a while back, and they must get those Sparc processors from somewhere.
Isn't this what Palm said a bit before HP bought them out?
Also, is it just me or does it look like the girl second from the left has really saggy boobs?
as the companies are usually what turn people away and not the products
1. Every publicly traded company must do what is best for stockholders. Everything has a price, everything.
2. Those are known as "Natural". Your online porn escapades will likely contain few of these.
They look kind of large and gravity does work so...
Those are called ear muffs.
I was thinking she was the only one in that photo with any to speak of period.
Do you wish to qualify that statement? How would all that extra money for R&D would "a nail in the coffin for AMD"? AMD has limited resources and are trying to compete against Intel who has unlimited resources, lots of designers and Intel's fabs are the most advanced in the world. AMD needs every bit of help it can get.
I can;t see how buying out Nvidia is going to help Oracle unless they really want to move into the GPGPU sector and as for the discrete consumer video card market is a declining market not an expanding one.