Comments on: Why Apple Should NOT Buy AMD

By: santa

santa — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 06:04:48 +0000

Ah! Is it April Fools’ Day already?!

By: charlie

charlie — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 01:42:04 +0000

I’d say if it can be attributed to any one thing, the reason HP turned it around is because of Mark Hurd. He really tightened the belt and pushed all the divisions. Seems to have paid off mightily.

By: sam

sam — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 01:00:41 +0000

I’m sorry but this just seems stupid to me. Nvidia buying AMD? that is feasible, but apple would want to have the AMD chips start looking pretty rather than be useful.

By: carl

carl — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:09:54 +0000

I generally agree with your post. Even buying companies that are technically a fit is definitely not a guarantee of success. Years ago, HP bought a company called Apollo Computers around 1989 which vaulted them into first place in the Unix workstation market for about 1 quarter when Sun retook the lead. It just didn’t work out that well and HP knew the workstation market at the time. They would have been better off hiring Linus Torvalds. Or, if you want another example, look at Mercedes buying Chrysler. Another failed acquisition. Its probably easier to find failures than successes.

Maybe HP-Compaq is a success story. HP’s certainly doing OK now but hard to tell what Compaq had to do with it. Maybe they are succeeding in spite of Compaq.

Maybe I’m a cynic.

By: charlie

charlie — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 23:41:12 +0000

While I’d love to work for a company such as Intel, I’m not currently in that position, so I’m not certain where you got that idea from.

Feel free to back up your argument kevin – I’ve already linked a couple articles that support my point and have plenty others if you’d like to read some more.

By: keving

keving — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:29:49 +0000

the guy who left the arguments is from Intel, the first argument he points out that Nothing can compare Intel’s lowest end Quad core chips is a false statement. please keep ur ass kissing else where.