AMD to Cut 5% of Workforce

[MiddleOfTheRoad]

I do not see AMD surviving as a company by 2017. Intel knows this.

Gee, I've never heard anything like this before.....

One of my favorite posts from the Geek.com Forum:
"Then AMD will bet the farm and do something great. That is if they have enough money and market share at 45nm. Big challenges come at that node, huge design challenges, even bigger silicon to design interaction, and bigger money stakes. I will boldy predict AMD won't survive past 45nm node alone or even in bed with IBM."
-Observer / August 22, 2005.

 

[Spungo]

Intel knows what you're thinking? Time to whip out the tinfoil man.

Intel is probably wondering why AMD still exists. I said AMD was a front for drug smuggling, and that was the only reason they still exist.

While games mostly look the same as they did a few years ago, the big improvements have been in AI because AI is relatively easy to make parallel. GTA 4 and 5 have a lot of AI, and it does make the game a lot more interesting.
AI gun fight

 

[Phynaz]

Seems like both you guys are very busy requesting others to list their merits and background, yet fail to provide any such info about yourself. I think that says a lot about your credibility.

My credentials have been posted in the past. Put a little effort in if it's that important to you.

 

[Arachnotronic]

Gee, I've never heard anything like this before.....

One of my favorite posts from the Geek.com Forum:
"Then AMD will bet the farm and do something great. That is if they have enough money and market share at 45nm. Big challenges come at that node, huge design challenges, even bigger silicon to design interaction, and bigger money stakes. I will boldy predict AMD won't survive past 45nm node alone or even in bed with IBM."
-Observer / August 22, 2005.

Corporate demises do not happen overnight. In many cases it is a slow, painful decay marked by cost cutting and downsizing until there are no more costs to be cut and nothing left to downsize.

AMD is in a classic death spiral and it will take something quite extraordinary to pull them out of it.

 

[mrmt]

Gee, I've never heard anything like this before.....

One of my favorite posts from the Geek.com Forum:
"Then AMD will bet the farm and do something great. That is if they have enough money and market share at 45nm. Big challenges come at that node, huge design challenges, even bigger silicon to design interaction, and bigger money stakes. I will boldy predict AMD won't survive past 45nm node alone or even in bed with IBM."
-Observer / August 22, 2005.

To be fair with the analyst AMD almost went bankrupt in 2008 and the common platform broke down after 45nm, with 32nm being a very rough node and the alliance disintegrating after it.

 

[Fjodor2001]

My credentials have been posted in the past. Put a little effort in if it's that important to you.

I searched but could not find anything. So do you have any SW engineering education, and if so what? And have you written or designed any SW?

 

[ShintaiDK]

When did you post your certified credentials? Or is it only others you ask for to try and move the goalpost?

 

[Fjodor2001]

When did you post your certified credentials? Or is it only others you ask for to try and move the goalpost?

It was you and your clone Phynaz who started asking about credentials. I have already responded to that request and presented mine. Now I am in in turn asking him (and you) what SW engineering education you have, and if you've ever designed or written any SW. So far we've not seen any response to that from either of you. So since both of you have refused to respond I take it you have none, as expected.

 

[MiddleOfTheRoad]

To be fair with the analyst AMD almost went bankrupt in 2008 and the common platform broke down after 45nm, with 32nm being a very rough node and the alliance disintegrating after it.

In hindsight, I really don't think it was the node -- instead a bad strategy for their architecture. Had they made incremental improvements to the Stars core instead of backing Bulldozer -- I think the company's current CPU portfolio would have been more competitive.

 

[tential]

Corporate demises do not happen overnight. In many cases it is a slow, painful decay marked by cost cutting and downsizing until there are no more costs to be cut and nothing left to downsize.

AMD is in a classic death spiral and it will take something quite extraordinary to pull them out of it.

Random but anyway reminds me of my first play through of xcom.
I lost, but after I had lost, I still struggled endlessly to not lose. I got the endgame screen hours after losing, but I spent 30-50% attempting to win back a lost game.

 

[Phynaz]

It was you and your clone Phynaz who started asking about credentials.

Actually I never asked about yours, as I really don't care. You posted in an attempt to pull some kind of intellectual superiority stunt - which has obviously backfired. The only thing I did was make an observation about your posts. Which by the way was correct.

My credentials are not within the topic of this thread as my position has not been cut by AMD.

 

[mrmt]

In hindsight, I really don't think it was the node -- instead a bad strategy for their architecture. Had they made incremental improvements to the Stars core instead of backing Bulldozer -- I think the company's current CPU portfolio would have been more competitive.

Crashes like those of AMD don't happen because of a single cause. It wasn't just Bulldozer, or Globalfoundries node, or the WSA, or the asinine APU vision, or the rather incompetent cuts, or the poor GPU marketing, but rather the combination of all of these factors that pushed AMD to the hole they are deep into now. Improve one of these and the hole wouldn't be that deep, but it wouldn't by itself solve AMD woes by itself.

If they still improved on Stars but kept the same big iGPU configuration for all their SKUs they would still have a poor cost structure and would bleed heavily for Intel, albeit probably less than the incompetent CMT family.

 

[Brian Stirling]

Perhaps if things work out AMD could hire Carly Fiorina! She could double revenue by selling AMD off...


Brian

 

[Fjodor2001]

Actually I never asked about yours

You started by questioning my experience in the field, which indirectly was a request to provide details on it, which I did. Then your buddy ShintaiDK chimed in as usual. So if I wouldn't have presented it, you would have complained about that instead. We all know how you work.

You posted in an attempt to pull some kind of intellectual superiority stunt - which has obviously backfired.

I presented it to prove that your statement was incorrect, which it was. So it did certainly did not backfire on be.

If anything we've learnt that it is you and your replica ShintaiDK who lack education and experience within the field. So the very thing that you tried to criticise me for actually applies you yourself instead. I.e. it has backfired on you.

My credentials are not within the topic of this thread

If you had any that were relevant you would already have presented them by now. So we know you've got none.

But I think this OT discussion is getting nowhere so let's just leave it at that.

 

[Hugo Drax]

AMD needs to cut employees to meet quarterly results and CEO gets his bonus. they will keep at it until they run out of employees to cut, then they declare bankrupt.

 

[Arachnotronic]

amd needs to cut employees to meet quarterly results and ceo gets her bonus. They will keep at it until they run out of employees to cut, then they declare bankrupt.

ftfy