Link: http://www.marketplace.org/topics/business/why-ibm-paying-15-billion-lose-business
Summary: IBM has fell 7 percent off its stock price this week. IBM is selling its chip making company to GlobalFoundries for $1.5 billion over the next three years. It would sound unconventional, except when looking to the future. IBM will be receiving chips for the next ten years from GlobalFoundries. Deals like this are exceedingly rare, but IBM has realized truth: it would be more costly to shut down than to sell, and they may be saving money in the end.
Original Air Date: October 20, 2014
Length: 2 minutes 22 seconds
Prompt / Discussion: Discuss how this type of deal differs from collusion.
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Even though we all hate to admit it but the tower PC market has been in a steady decline phase these last years. Its no surprise that IBM would want to sell out rather than holding tight and possibly crashing and burning. I just wonder if companies like NVidia, AMD, and Intel will manage to diversify their productlines enough to stay viable players in the chip industry.