Interview with AMD CEO.......

[travler]

That was an extraordinarily interesting read . thanks for the link. Answered alot of questions about AMD I had.

If there were another company I would like to see interviewed right now i would have to say newegg.com. even if its a retail vs tech company.

 

[Martin]

Bump for the best interview ever!


You gotta love Jerry. Of course he's on sided, but what else do you expect?


Definately cooler than Intel's CEO

 

[ssanches]

<< I can tell from that article that all of AMD's eggs are in the hammer basket. >>



They're also going after the Flash memory market aggressively. As Jerry Sanders said, they have 3 core activities: Processors, Flash RAM and Wireless. I too think that's the way for AMD to go, along with tying up with other companies like UMC Fujitsu, Motorola etc. I've heard that Intel too is going this way i.e. focusing on semiconductors and the Internet. Intel too has decided to focus on core activities. IMHO that's why they're closing down certain consumer electronics divisions like their Webcam and MP3 player divisions....

 

[ssanches]

<< Jerry Sanders also mentions that they're working on a K9. Anybody got any scoop?

It's going to be fast and expensive. >>



Yeah, that means we're going to do some serious pimp slapping in around 3 yrs time

EDIT: I just did some browsing, and found an article saying the code-name for the K9 may be GreyHound

Linky

 

[ssanches]

There was another article on AMD and Sanders by the Inquirer 3 months back (of course that's TheInquirer's perspective)

Linky: AMD Dull as dishwater without Duking Jerry

 

[Boonesmi]

i know its been said before

but that was a dang interesting read!!!

 

[Zebo]

Bump for a real man. No Public "Relations Offiicer" here.

Flash memory- We have a design that is only 80 square mm in a 130-nanometer technology, compared with maybe 136 square mm for the [Intel] Pentium 4 [processor]. So we outperform the Pentium 4, and our die size is much smaller.

Intels communications bid-but they lose over a billion dollars on it. The only place they make money is in microprocessors. In the processor business, only one market matters, and that is the PC market.


Aren?t embedded processors outgrowing PC usage?-Forget about it.

Microsoft-Microsoft (MSFT) rules. They won. In case you missed it,...So if you can?t make it in the PC-processor business, you?re screwed, because the volume elsewhere won?t enable you to generate enough revenue to support your design effort

INTEL-AMD? [We have] eroded their margin from 48 percent to 24 percent. And, at AMD, we see that the answer is not more factories, but better design.

-Our issue isn?t with producing; it?s getting orders away from a monopolist who makes very aggressive deals.
-1986. That?s when they refused to honor the agreement.
-They sued me on that, and they lost that time, too.
-We beat them to market, which made them furious. They ran out of clock speed at 1.13GHz and recalled the part. In fact, there was a lawsuit filed in December against Intel. It points out how Intel introduced these products earlier than they had historically done, to stop AMD from getting customers


What's next for AMD?-When we introduce that device?and we will?for the first time, we?ll have clear unquestioned superiority over anything Intel?s got. Having said that, we?re starting to hear what I?ll call more Intel FUD [fear, uncertainty, and doubt]. Vapors are drifting out (?Well, maybe they?ll introduce an x86 with 64-bit instructions; stand by.?) because customers are telling Intel, ?We don?t like Itanium; we like Hammer.? If they would do that, I?d say it?s an acknowledgment and a validation of our strategy. AMD?s challenge will be to ensure that the customers aren?t dissuaded from going forward with an AMD Hammer solution, waiting for Intel to come out with their ?sometime later.?

Gotta love his candidness