SDBryan

10 Reasons Why Apple Should Acquire AMD

And reason #10, as some others have pointed out, is ridiculous. Protectionism is understandable, but c'mon! It's not like AMD is really any more a foreign-controlled company now that Citigroup. If Warren Buffet can buy 15% of PetroChina, why can't a Middle Eastern investment banker buy a chunk of AMD?

"Ooooh, the Saudis are gonna figure out the innerworkings of the Sempron."

10 Reasons Why Apple Should Acquire AMD

I think if AAPL tried something like that INTC would stop dealing with them altogether. You're not talking about a company like DELL or HPQ that sells systems with both AMD and Intel chipsets. You're talking about a company that could produce it's own microprocessors and at the same time convincing Intel that it's still a good idea to do business with them. The adoption of the INTC processors, which lowered cost and leveled the playing field hardware-wise with companies like Dell and HP, was one of the defining moments in Apple's amazing growth story over the past several years. Why would Apple now turn around and buy a company that loaded with debt and can't keep up with it's bigger rival no matter how hard it tries, just to get at a microprocessor architecture that will be duplicated and probably improved upon by Intel within the next year?