I think you will find ST is more a French/ Italian company.

I remember the STMicro Kyro II, it was awesome at the time. Still sort of wish a new desktop chip would get released by these guys...

... now hopefully ARM is next.

Oh ya, and Surya that was the dumbest thing I've read in a long time. You deserve a prize for that one, a darwin award if we are lucky.

What possible good could nVidia gain from buying AMD?

#1 Anti-trust, as getting a hold of ATI would have the regulators up in arms.

#2 Intel would just cancel the X86 license as they have a it cant be sold clause

You have to be kidding right? Nvidia buying AMD?

And what are you basing theese predictions on? Your magic 8-ball?

AMD now did not have competitive products for their microprocessor. I expect until quarter 3 2010, they will still loss. Intel will roll out Larrabee in that quarter. In that schedule, NVIDIA will buy AMD after AMD shed additional debts at least 1 billion dollar.