AMD ‘buyout’ rumours
p2pnet.net news:- AMD may be a leveraged buyout target, suggest current rumours.
“The volume in AMD March calls have been abnormally high,” DailyTech has equity risk manager Steve Sosnick saying. “There are rumors of a private equity buyout.”
And, “At least in the near term, the options market is giving some credence to these rumors,” he says
But Wall Street analyst Doug Freedman said earlier AMD would be, “an unattractive candidate for private equity firms due to the companyââ¬â¢s struggling cash flow from its price war with Intel,” says the story.
Also See:
DailyTech – AMD Buyout Rumors Shake Stock Prices, February 27, 2007
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February 28th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
I HOPE that AMD does not sell out! All we consumers would have then as a serious competitor is Intel…and that is aa VERY scary thought!
Intel chips are high priced already with competition from AMD….can you imagine what they would be with little to no competition???
February 28th, 2007 at 3:48 pm
AMD won’t be liquidated. Another words, it will still be a competitor to Intel. If anything, a buyout would mean more money for AMD to get back on it’s feet, which at that point, the holders of the company would either sell it off for a profit or hold it as a steady source of revenue.
As for the pricing of Intel’s current chips, of course they are price higher, they perform MUCH better than the best of AMDs chips at the moment. AMD has drastically lowered prices because of this, hence the reason why AMD chips seem so cheap. The processor and graphics markets act in cyclical fashions. One generation, Intel is on top, the next AMD, etc… Plus, AMD had the performance crown in the desktop market for the 6-8 years before Intel released the “Conroe” architecture.