@yogthos @technology That’s a lot to buy for the fastest risc underpinning Intel x86.

Wait how does this work this post got posted on both mastodon and lemmy from a lemmy account tf I thought this was only possible the other way around

In 2009 amd, facing insolvency sold its entire mobile graphics department to qualcomm for a measely 65million that technology went on to become snapdragon. It’s one of the only things that kept amd going at the time, but qualcomm got insanely rich off it.

It’s rather poetic to now see intel face a similar decision. According to the article intel is also planning to spin it’s chip manufacturing out to its own company which is also what amd did with global founderies around the same time as selling to qualcomm.