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AMD death watch

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pelov

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So it seems that AMD is prepping to lay off another 10%-to-30% of their workforce, and it appears mostly engineers, so it's only a matter of time before they kick the bucket.

It pains me greatly, but after continuous screw ups over the past several years it really wouldn't shock anyone if it were to happen.

http://semiaccurate.com/2012/10/12/amds-layoffs-target-engineering/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-5...ffs-that-could-hit-30-percent-of-its-workers/

How long do you guys think they'll last? I'm going to give it a year before they sell off their IP and/or graphics division.
 
I love to hate AMD, but if they go then we are all screwed. Intel will rape the hell out of everyone and everything and so will Nvidia if the graphics go as well.
 
to be fair, those numbers are reported by "semiaccurate."

....so I guess I'll only "semitrust" this story until I see more info.

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It definitely seems AMD is not doing very well, it will be sad to see them go. There needs to be healthy competition. Then again, I don't think they've been considered competition for a while now. But if they go then Intel wont have anything stopping them from artificially raising their prices. Same with Nvidia.

I wonder if we'll ever see a new player in the cpu market. I could see a company like Samsung perhaps.
 
sorry for AMD engineers, they can't be that bad to be guilty for disappointing CPU performance in last few yrs.
To be honest, AMD would be dead long ago if it wasn't for NetBurst. As soon as Core Duo came out, it was game over for AMD.
 
AMD is hurting for sure, but their products are still reasonably competitive in the market. If restructuring the company allows AMD to focus on the niches they're good, they'll survive. Of course, my confidence in AMD's ability to execute on a restructuring plan (or any plan, really) is low, but even so, I think a deathwatch thread is premature.
 
I definitely prefer Intel to AMD, but AMD needs to be there to at least give a semblance of competition. AMD simply does not seem to be able to put out a competitive product in the 200 dollar range.
 
moonbogg said:
I love to hate AMD, but if they go then we are all screwed. Intel will rape the hell out of everyone and everything and so will Nvidia if the graphics go as well.
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That's the problem, Intel happily raped everyone before AMD and will instantly double prices the minute they kick the bucket. Anyone that buys an Intel processor should be forced to donate $25 to AMD. It would save the company and that $25 is a drop in the bucket compared to how much AMD drives down Intel's prices.
 
I think the changing nature of the market is killing AMD.

The paradign where Microsoft and Apple kept writing bigger and more thirsty OS'es and applications drove the CPU manufacturers to make more and more powerful cpu's is nearing an end.

However, much like the MP3 was good enough to replace cd audio the low cost ARM chips can now run just about all the apps most people use. You don't need a 700 hundred megabyte Bluray software program. You can play them with a 7 mb. Windows Media Player Classic.

Windows 7 ran better than Vista on the same hardware and I have run Windows 8 on an AMD C-6 dual core at 1ghz(turbo 1.33) and it ran better than many of the Vista machines did in the 800 dollar price range.

I always wondered how ARM stayed in business with such low revenue but it turns out that Intel and AMD were working in a world where profit margins were astronomical. As soon as ARM's caught up to running the apps that 90 percent of the people used all the time it was the end of the party for the huge markups.

We are reaching the point where cpu's can be made with off the shelf components and designs. Instead of hundreds of dollars a SOC can do most things for under 20 bucks.

In the soon to be rapidly shrinking home market for powerful, expensive home cpu's there is only room for one. And its clearly Intel.
 
moonbogg said:
I love to hate AMD, but if they go then we are all screwed. Intel will rape the hell out of everyone and everything and so will Nvidia if the graphics go as well.
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AMD has not been competitive in the high end CPU sector for a while and sandy/ivy prices are still very reasonable so I'm not all that considered. NV on the other hand...
 
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