By whom though? I don't see how any company directly competing with Intel (or even orthogonal e.g. Nvidia and ARM) could be allowed to by Intel (they'd need approval in the US/EU and presumably a few other places) unless it's actually on the brink of bankruptcy?
>unless it's actually on the brink of bankruptcy?
This may be in the cards.
IIRC Intel and AMD have a patent sharing agreement that dissolves if either is purchased.
That's just a thing that needs to be renegotiated - highly doubt these two are getting into a patent war given the state of x86. Unless Intel gets acquired by a litigious company to go after AMD :shrug:
Gov would bail out intel or amd lol, this would negate American tech dominance and would try to prevent that