Microsoft may be interested in buying amd

It is no secret that AMD does not go through one of its best moments, far, far away is the time when it was the queen of performance of x86 processors and lately it is difficult to keep up with Nvidia in terms of GPUs, no in vain he has unveiled a Radeon R300 series consisting entirely of renowned cards.

At the heart of AMD's difficulties is a lack of money for R&D in a market where you can't stop innovating or fall behind very quickly. A few months ago there were rumors that Samsung is interested in buying AMD and now it could be neither more nor less than Microsoft interested.

If it is analyzed, Microsoft's interest in AMD makes enough sense, currently Redmond's pay AMD $ 100 for each Xbox One sold, which is currently $ 1.26 billion for the 12.6 million consoles sold, a considerable number if we have Take into account the approximately 1, 800 million dollars in which AMD is currently valued.

With the acquisition of AMD, Microsoft would save paying $ 100 for each Xbox One unit sold, in addition to charging for each PS4 and WiiU sold since they have AMD hardware. It would also be a good move by Microsoft since it would put Sony and Nintendo in a difficult position to design future video consoles.

Nor can we ignore the advantage that it would mean for Microsoft to take over AMD technology and be able to design its own chips for its Lumia Smartphones and its Surface and the great optimization of the software that this would entail, very Apple-like.

Regarding consumers, the purchase of AMD by Microsoft would mean a strong injection of money in the departments responsible for the design of Radeon GPUs and Zen and later processors, so it would be in a better position to face Nvidia and Intel in a future.

Source: kitguru