AMD in peril?
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Arstechnica had a writeup earlier this week - they are very optimistic about the debut of Barcelona.
As a consumer, I want AMD to do well. I do not prefer one brand over another, but do want good products from both Intel and AMD.
Krazy4Real
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well worst case scenario, someone will buy them out. Someone with lots of excess cash on their hands.
zephyrprime
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Really, getting bought out isn't such a bad thing. AMD has quite a bit of debt still and a cash infusion or renegotiated debt would be real nice from a business point of view. It only sucks for the current management and board which would probably get the boot.
yeah but wanst it just a while ago when intel was getting its ass handed to them? Ups and downs are part of business...its good for the market.
more than 70% of all mergers fail to deliver shareholder value. I doubt a perennial f-up like amd is going to beat the odds.
a lbo would be the best thing that could happen to them. fire the moronic board, axe half of their execs and pump r&d.
a lbo would be the best thing that could happen to them. fire the moronic board, axe half of their execs and pump r&d.
Yea, Intel got their ass handed by AMD. Intel went from 80% Market share to 75% Market share. Meanwhile, Intel keeps on piling that 10 billions in cash with only 2 billions in debt while losing 5% market share. AMD meanwhile is 2.5 billions in the hole while losing market shares back to Intel. And now they are losing the war on technology to Intel.
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What I find amusing is that AMD was taking market share from Intel very consistently, which had never really happened before. They are finally in with one of the largest OEMs, Dell, and made serious in-roads into the market which has the highest profit margins, servers. Yet, when the tech lead went back to Intel (which they previously ALWAYS had anyway), the doom and gloom predictions come out for AMD. Wall Street, and consequently American business, is so short-sighted it's deplorable.
US auto industry: "Let's make outrageous concessions to the UAW to keep them working on a short term basis. We'll worry about the debilitating effects later." Guess what's happening now?
Barcelona should be good for AMD. Once they integrate ATI, they'll have an even better position to compete with Intel. One fairly short term, one longer term.
It damn well better come back as I have money in them.
US auto industry: "Let's make outrageous concessions to the UAW to keep them working on a short term basis. We'll worry about the debilitating effects later." Guess what's happening now?
Barcelona should be good for AMD. Once they integrate ATI, they'll have an even better position to compete with Intel. One fairly short term, one longer term.
It damn well better come back as I have money in them.
Originally posted by: FoBoT
Originally posted by: Hyperlite
oh yeah? hows that thingy workin for ya?
super, she really like her new computer
i had some trouble with the RAM, i have to run it slower than it was supposed to be able to work at
You'll want to raise the voltage on that.
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