Initial rumors about Samsung or Qualcomm's intentions to buy AMD company favorably affected the stock price of the latter. The prospects of such transaction is very vague.
Associate reports that in the short term Qualcomm or Samsung does not intend either to acquire AMD. The first might be interested in AMD division , to develop mobile graphics solutions, but this circumstance is unlikely to be the reason for such a big deal.
Samsung and Qualcomm are probably interested in the operating system Windows RT, which will determine the further development of ARM architecture processor. Both manufacturer for a long time productively cooperate with the British holding company for the foreseeable future.