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Open original source ↗Qualcomm buying Intel is dumb, but some positives
Creates a powerhouse in consumer chips, mobile to PC, but results in a lot of duplicate IP, custom CPU, GPU, ISP, Al, etc
So, there would be significant cost cutting
Qualcomm has no ability to turn around datacenter or foundry
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Keep both x86 and Arm both reduce number different cores, focus way more on x86 though
Kill Qualcomm iGPU keep Intel's
Kill Intel VPU keep Qualcomm Hexagon
Kill Intel Wifi keep Qualcomm
Kill Intel ISP keep Qualcomm
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Qualcomm is perhaps the worst company I would expect to run Intel, and yet they wanna take it over https://t.co/u0MiPeg3nL
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