AMD Fury no 980Ti killer

[RolloTheGreat]

It's all for the better - a mega-corporation needs to swoop in and snatch AMD up for pennies, even if AMD has over a billion dollar debt weighing down the carcass.  

It makes the most sense for Microsoft to buy AMD and start pouring billions upon billions of R&D into hardware.  Sure, there could be legal workarounds so that AMD could still be considered  an independent company "merging" with Microsoft, and still produce x86 CPUs/APUs with the old license, but really be completely owned by Microsoft after all.  

This would really threaten Sony with the PS5, especially if Nvidia sticks to their decision to no longer be a bitch for somebody else's consoles.  

I'm thinking that there has to be such a secretive agreement or clause somewhere between Sony, AMD, and Microsoft - that neither Sony or Microsoft are allowed to buy AMD out for the entire duration of AMD supplying chips to either party????  Maybe I'm not making any sense at all?  It's just that Microsoft would do anything to wipe Sony out of the console competition, and snatching AMD up now would be a no-brainer.  The price that Microsoft is paying for all of those APU's in their consoles is probably not too far away from the total market value of AMD altogether, nearly at a historic bottom within the last 12 years or so.  

Must be anti-monopoly laws that M$ is afraid of, thus steering clear of the temptation to buy 51% of AMD's shares, at least?

MS can take over the gaming market cheaper than buying AMD and putting billions and billions into R&D, they could just lower the price of XBone to $199.99. Sony can't follow suit because PS4 is one of the only things they sell that makes money.

Or they could re-do the XBone with an intel chip and NVIDIA GPU. Think anyone on the planet buys an AMD APU over that?