Nice Christmas present … but it will cost Intel $16.7 billion for fellow chip maker Altera. Now is the time to start buying before all the goods are gone! Especially with Dell wanting to acquire EMC for a whopping $67 billion, it’s now or never …
“After getting the all-clear from the European Commission, Intel has wrapped up its $16.7 billion acquisition of fellow chip maker Altera. The deal is the company’s biggest buyout to date, and will help it keep enterprise customers happy with faster, more complex silicon. As the Wall Street Journal explains, technology giants such as Facebook, Google and Microsoft currently use Intel’s Xeon processors for computational work. Some, however, are bolstering them with field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) sold by Altera, which are useful because they can be reprogrammed. Intel will sell the two together starting next year, but its long-term vision is to combine both onto a single chip.”
Source: Engadget
