Intel Buys Infineon's Wireless for $1.4 Billion Cash

Intel: Taking over the world, one purchase at a time.

They previously purchased McAfee and a maker of broadband modems. Makes me wonder what the cohesive strategy is aside from penetrating markets they had little to no presence in and selling their Atom chips to them.

Woah!? what are they going to buy next? Google?

if the next 2 purchases include an artificial intelligent and a satellite company i will start building my bunker....

(Skynet)

Gotta love the purchasing power of giants like Intel. "Oooh shiny! You there, Accounting peon, shake the sofas in the lobby and see what you find. 1.4 billion? Great, hand it over to those grubby looking fellows over there in exchange for our shiny! Look, a squirrel!"

Wow they are on a spending spree. What next they buy out CISCO and later Oracle or they already do own them? :s

I think it's very clear that they're trying to get into the handset and embedded business. There was a story in Tom's a little while ago (see link below) describing the CPU roadmap. Intel has also invested in handset OS Moblin (now MeeGo), embedded OS when it purchased purchased wind river. Now with Infineon it has expertise in radios and other stuff needed for handsets. The strategy is very clear.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/a [...] 11177.html

Expect this to slowly change as they optimise for Intel chips leaving ARM to take a performance hit. It will happen slowly, but it will happen.

Wow every big company is buying out the little guys this is getting kinda crazy.

With all current and next gen devices moving to be wireless this is a pretty obvious/good step for Intel.... Fortunately for us this isn't going to be another show of how Intel is killing us on processors prices as there is lots of wireless competition to keep Intel in check in this field, and only one AMD to keep processors in check

intel is definatly on the aquisition kick lately and a difinitive pattern has not emerged. so either they are

a) diverifying into several fields to utilize thier chips. perhaps adding more function to modems as mini severs, maybe including stand alone hardware firewalls and security software with its previous aquisition and using this new aquisition for futher diversification into the wireless and mobile field making full operational units... or

b) total world domination

hoping for a ... if b i hope our new overloards are merciful

Annual revenue of over 900 million Euro? Buying them for $1.4 billion is a steal

I wouldn't say they are exactly buying to diversify. I think they have an overall goal of getting their processors into the handheld market as well as whatever other low power segments they can hit.

It seems like Intel has been on a bit of a spenting spree of late. First with the purchase of McAfee and now this. I will be very curious to see if this is done purely for purposes of investment, or if there is a grand scheme that is yet to be revealed.

Now everything will be labeled "INTEL inside"

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I'd go with Cyberdyne Systems

The real important question is : how many suitcases does it take to move 1.4 billion cash?

This is scaring me, soon our phones will be intel made. Our modem will be intel made, our satellites will be intel made, our internet provider will be intel. Whats next, will they make an OS and compete with M$?

all it takes is one smart person to come along to have a great idea to put them all out of business

A stack of Benjamins is 100 bills (10,000 USD), and measures approximately 6" x 2.5" x 0.5". For sake of style and security, we will assume the money is being transported in a Zero Halliburton case (those cool aluminum cases that are featured in movies), which has dimensions of 18" x 13" x 5.25". Packing as efficiently as possible, we can get the bills in stacks of 10, 3 across, and 5 front-to-back. That's 150 stacks, or $1.5M per case. Dividing $1.4B by $1.5M gives us 933.33.

SO... it would take 934 cases (with the last case containing only $500,000) to transport $1.4 billion in cash.

Yes, one of its future CEO

Thanks for doing the leg work on that. But seriously you have a bit of free time, don't you?

whats their vision ?.............building a empire like in Starwars.

yeah they buy this and that but they lost on GPU side................lol

I can envision a future where Intel decides to roll-out its own network. There's still some spectrum open from the transition to digital TV. Maybe Intel is eying creating its own data/telephony network that will work only with Intel systems. Intel is shrinking down their Atom, they're buying a network security firm, and now they've bought a wireless technology company. Maybe this new network will be used to control Intel's vast robotic army as they tear through cities and towns, destroying the human population in Intel's quest for world dominance. People like to compare Google to Skynet, but I'm thinking Google lacks the hardware touch.

Of course, maybe Intel just plans to start making their own cell-phones, rather than trying to convince other companies to use the Atom processor. That sounds simpler, but not dominant enough for an Intel pursuit.

Lets hope these new acquisitions lead to better advancement in technology and not just price gouging and unfair market tactics

Until they buy Nvidia

I think intel have something major plan up their sleeve. Maybe next they going to sue people for patent got through buying other companies.

If Intel once was bigh now is going huge adcquiring new technologies, I think this might be good for competition unless they decide to limit what we can do with wireless tech., Ex. As they are planing and did with theirclarkdale and lynfield cpus.....

Or one smart AI to put us all out of business

Intel Vs. Microsoft Vs. Google Vs. Apple. Who will be the ruler of the world?