[rational_indian]

How can this pass when NVIDIA failed to take over ARM?

[NewJazz]

Qualcomm is not the most dominant chip designer in basically any market section. Intel is the worst of the best fabs.

Still, I think there would be some serious antitrust scrutiny.

They might let Qualcomm take the Intel design business but make them split out fabrication. Qualcomm might not be interested in that offer, thoguh.

[badgersnake]

5G modems. Their only competitor was Intel until Apple bought that business, but afaik they’re still using Qualcomm.

They is also pretty much a duopoly in mobile chips in the western market.

[boomskats]

Qualcomm and Intel are both US-based companies.

[teleforce]

Fun facts, Broadcom changed its base from Singapore to US just so it can buy Qualcomm but failed nonetheless.

[1] Broadcom completes move to U.S. from Singapore:

https://www.reuters.com/article/business/broadcom-completes-...

[scheme271]

But I think this is probably still need to be approved by EU and a few asian regulators at the very least.