Intels in trouble..

[Zor Prime]

yeah intel is in trouble when AMD cant even make its own chips

... I think there's truth to that.

AMD execs could throw hundred dollar bills out corp windows all day long and somehow, AMD would be propped up, or someone else brought up to bat to make x86 processors.

It's in Intel's best interests that AMD is on life support, not dead, nor acquired (x86 license isn't transferable IIRC). You can't acquire all of AMD, perhaps its GPU division, etc.

AMD isn't going anywhere, not anytime soon, not this decade anyway. x86 is an infestation, one sole player inside the majority of the world's desktop and server computers likely cannot be veiled from the eyes of regulatory organizations.

Intel would be the most likely candidate broken up into chunks since 'Bell and that would screw everybody at least in the short term.

Then again, Intel could be viewed as "too big to fail," such is the norm these days.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

On snap!

This isn't a complicated discussion. The facts are that AMD continued losing money even with a big chunk of the console business this generation. To overcome that, they need huge volumes at low margins or more modest volumes at higher margins. This being the console market, you can probably eliminate "higher margins" as a possibility. So the question becomes this: will the volume be enough to put AMD in the black? Possibly, but anyone who seriously thinks that because they've also landed the CPUs in these next gen consoles, that Intel is "in trouble" is seriously deluded. Which, of course, IS what this thread is about.