Intel Eyeing Xilinx?
March 31, 2010
Christopher Danely, an analyst with J.P. Morgan Securities, recently speculated that Intel, which has about $13 billion in cash, will acquire Xilinx. A detailed analysis of his argument is available at EETimes. Hans Mosesmann of Raymond James Equity Research disagrees with this view, saying that Intel really wants to be relevant in wireless and smartphones, and that it has already tried its hand in programmable logic and sold its PLD business to Altera in 1994, so it is not likely to get into it again.
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