Chip designer Arm reportedly made an attempt to acquire Intel's product division, but the offer was rejected by Intel executives who stated that the division isn't for sale. This comes after Qualcomm also reportedly expressed interest in acquiring parts of Intel.
Brit chip designer Arm is reportedly the latest to make an attempted play for Intel 's product division.Bloomberg, which claims that Arm 's supposed offer was rebuffed by Intel execs who said the division isn't for sale. The Softbank-owned outfit, apparently, wasn't interested at all in Intel 's Foundry division.
that Qualcomm had made similar overtures to the struggling Xeon maker, which is in the process of laying off some 16,000 workers following a disastrous second quarter Arm declined to comment on this piece, and Intel did not immediately respond to a request for comment. But, if you're scratching your head wondering what Arm could possibly want with Intel, we're right there with you. Obviously, such a deal would face incredible regulatory scrutiny, but from a purely philosophical standpoint, Intel and Arm's business models don't actually share much in common. Intel has traditionally designed and manufactured its own chips primarily on the x86-64 instruction set architecture (ISA) co-developed and cross-licensed with AMD. These parts are sold through various channel partners under familiar brands like Xeon and Core. In contrast, Arm is an IP house. It's the driving force behind the competing Arm ISA, and it develops various IP blocks ranging from individual cores to pretty much whole processor designs. Arm's business revolves around licensing these architecture and IP holdings to fabless chip designers like Apple, Qualcomm, Ampere, and others. To reiterate, Arm does not make chips; its partners do, which makes the idea of acquiring a company like Intel, whose intellectual property is architecturally antithetical to its own, all the more implausible. One could make the argument that Arm may see value in licensing the x86 instruction set more broadly — the only problem is it probably couldn't, even if it wanted to.reached by Intel and AMD back in 2009. That agreement is subject to termination if a change of control happens at either compan
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