The Stock market awoke yesterday morning with rumours swirling around about a potential AMD takeover. It’s a regular refrain, and potentially just based on unsubstantiated rumours deliberately spread to spike share prices, but it still sent Amd Stock up by almost $1 per share in less than an hour. So, who the hell is meant to be buying AMD this time?

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The idea of AMD being bought out by another company is one that periodically gets floated around, with many names getting thrown out, as do accusations of pump and dump share shenanigans. It’s an interesting time to do that with the release of the AMD Ryzen 2 CPUs set to drop very soon.