Several weeks ago, an unknown in the U.S. Chinese firm BLX IC Design was rumored to be looking at purchasing struggling Advanced Micro Devices. Those rumors were quickly dismissed as just that and faded away.

Now, a story from a Korean newspaper say Samsung is looking to acquire AMD. The same issues would remain for Samsung as there were for BLX, which means any acquisition would be a long shot and very arduous.

From what I could tell from the less-than-stellar translation (Google and Bing both), the thinking behind the deal is to both boost Samsung’s business, which has been faltering as of late, and to give it expertise in CPU and GPU technology.

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