NEC and Renesas looking to join forces against semiconductor evil
By Paul Miller 
posted Apr 28th 2009 11:18AM
posted Apr 28th 2009 11:18AM
[Via Electronista]
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Which is which?
NEC is the red rocket. Obvious.
I'm sending in Jet Jaguar and Rex Dart to break that shit up. Looks Dangerous.
somehow the flatness of the crotch area in the pic kinda "stands out"
of course that's where everyone would check first, it's so obvious..
@chanman lol.... I guess he is disappointed... wrong blog dude.. wrong blog.. here we do phones...
@ Whitetooth
Wrong blog again. I think you're looking for engadgetmobile. We sometimes do phones here, but we're mostly all about irreverent topics, uncomfortable situations, and many failed attempts at tech humor.
awesome picture
Bizzare
OMG, they are the Kyodyne from the 70's TV Series!
So when are these guys going to buy AMD? Samsung wouldn't do that because they need Intel, but I could see this new company interested in buying AMD for the intellectual property and X86 licensing rights.
Does anyone knows If Samsung increased the price of their NAND flash memory recently due to slow sales and a cut in production? Im doing a project for school and need some of this info.
Thanks!
Not to go totally OT here but seriously #$%^ those who chat about mergers as though they are a great thing. These sort of acquisitions usually lead to further layoffs and an initially stripped product line as the two companies in agree figure out how to mix and match their assets while spending huge amounts of liquidity.
Also, even if the NEC/Renesas chip making titan were to consume AMD, people who constantly spout about how AMD needs to be bought to cure its lackluster product line wouldn't still give a flying $%^& about whatever company emerges.
So in all in all to those who chat about how business X should acquire business Y just shut it and continue to purchase whatever SUITES YOU!
Is this smart? The bigger they are the harder they fall, and japan isn't into all those bailouts like the west is.
I''d rather have 6 medium companies than 1 or 2 superbig ones that can mess up everything with one wrong decision or one issue hitting them.
Of course you can't grow smartness out of nothing so it makes sense that the world's business leaders continue to make bad calls.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economies_of_scale
Yeah I get the concept, but reality has shown that when you get too big and the shit hits the fan you sink like a brick, nothing can be scaled up forever and every advantage carries a risk too.
This is valid even in biology, and physics too, and computing, more cores makes you faster, until you hit the ceiling when adding more cores doesn't make you much faster but does increase power use and heat, you'd think the asians would had heard about ying and yang ;)
WoW! 天地雙雄! I almost forgot they're exist.
for some reason i can't stop laughing at that picture!!