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New Rumor suggests Intel could be acquiring AMD    
EETimes has just come out with a new statement saying that it heard from several C-level executives about the possibility of Intel acquiring AMD.
Read more:- www.techquila.co.in/intel-acquiring-am…

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The US passed a law in the 70's stating that a monopoly would not be accepted, and told Intel there must always be a minimum of 2 opposing companies who could produce the same type of chip. Specifically the 8086 Transistor Chip - and subsequent generations.
Some people from Intel formed AMD under this new law and produced slightly inferior chips that they had to design from the ground up that were substantially different from Intel chips yet still met the standard.
AMD was born.
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multiple times to have AMD shut down, by backroom tactics, lawsuits, overspending and other tactics deemed illegal by the US Courts. (See my previous posts about the lawsuits they lost and the millions they had to pay to AMD,
Including the annihilation of Cyrex, the takeover of Cirrus Logic CPU's etc).
Intel will never be allowed to buy AMD out under US Federal Law.
As for acquiring nVidia, legally they are in a position to do so as they are not the only graphics card manufacturer - but with rumors of Intel wanting to use AMD integrated graphics on some of their new CPU's, I also find this difficult to believe.

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This would actually be kinda funny if it were even legal. AMD is after all an off shoot of Intel. It was started by people from Intel that wanted to go a different direction. —

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I can't see this happening, for the same reason Microsoft didn't buy apple 100 times over. —

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