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This 6 page paper looks at the proposed merger of AMD and ATI, considering it from the perspectives of anti-trust legislation. The paper looks at the motivations for the merger and the likely impact on the market before coming to a conclusion. The bibliography cites 4 sources.
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greater than the two separate companies it replaced. The aim may be to bring together complimentary technologies to leverage product development or operational capabilities, different target markets to increase market
share, or even similar operations where value can be gained with the leveraging of economies of scale. Before a merger takes place there are many negotiations between the companies involved
as well as assessments on the impact that the change will have internally as well as on the market. It is only where a merger can be complied successfully that
there will be the opportunity to use the resulting company to gain value from the marketplace. If we consider a merger that was proposed in July 2006 was between Advanced
Micro Devices, better known as AMD and ATI technologies, both in the high tech computer chip industry and both well established companies. However if we look at the reasoning behind
the merger then the potential value may be appreciated. However, when major companies are involved in a potential merger there are also dangers that anti-trust legislation was pout in place
to prevent to prevent the domination of the market by a single company. The merger is to be achieved by way of AMD to purchase ATI, a graphics chip
company. If we consider what this would mean and the impact it ma have on the market it is then possible to assess this from the antitrust position. The offer
has been for a total of $5.5 billion and the date that the merger is expected to go through is during the 4th quarter of 2006. The offer is made
up of $4.2 billion in case and 57 million shares to be issued in common stock for the ATI shareholders (Kawamoto, 2006). The post merged company would be expected to
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