Added to this are the stability issues of the 13th and 14th generation processors that have tarnished the company’s reputation. We can’t fail to mention that Intel was late to the Artificial intelligence.
As is usually the case, it was only a matter of time before a company wanted to take advantage of the situation, but no one expected it to be Qualcomm itself.
Qualcomm interested in Intel
According to the Wall Street Journal, Qualcomm is reportedly eyeing Intel, which has been knocking on doors to try to reach an acquisition deal, although the real chances of that happening have been virtually nil since the competition regulators They wouldn’t allow it.
While it is true that they are not direct competitors, since they use different architectures in the manufacture of their processors, both launch products on the market with computers managed by Windows and the idea of grouping them into one, two architects different within the same company, will not please regulators.
Antitrust regulations will not allow two semiconductor giants to merge into one, as has already happened with NVIDIA And ARMan operation that ultimately did not go through for the same reason. The announcement was made in September 2020, but a year and a half later, the competition authorities have not approved the acquisition, both from the North American FTC and the European Union.
What is more likely is that Qualcomm, more than interested in buying Intel, is considering buying part of its business, such as Intel Foundryso as not to depend on third parties to manufacture their own chips. For now, Intel’s idea is to separate this company from the main one to manufacture for other companies and thus be able to more quickly amortize the gigantic investment it has made.
So far this year, the price of Intel Actions fell nearly 60% to $93 billion. Qualcomm, for its part, has a current valuation of $190 billion, although in 2020 its market capitalization reached $290 billion, $100 billion more than Qualcomm’s current value.
Qualcomm, a leading manufacturer in the mobile device segment, entered the notebook processor segment with the launch a few months ago of the Snapdragon X Elitethe first ARM processors designed exclusively for PC and which integrate an NPU to perform artificial intelligence tasks locally, without depending on an Internet connection.
By 2025, NVIDIA, in collaboration with MediaTeklaunches a range of processors with ARM architecture to compete with Qualcomm, Intel and AMD.
