I wonder if AMD ends up undergoing divestment and say, the TSMC targeted stuff (Jaguar, discrete GPUs) goes to one company apart from all the other stuff.. would that company have any obligation to GF?
According to the arstechnica article they are more as Rocky
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I wonder if AMD ends up undergoing divestment and say, the TSMC targeted stuff (Jaguar, discrete GPUs) goes to one company apart from all the other stuff.. would that company have any obligation to GF?
They could certainly sell-off the assets that exist surrounding the "cat" line to any company with an existing x86 license should that company be interested in pursuing it. (Via for example)
Here's the original photo from the article.
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Your link is not even from the arstechnica site. That photo was taken several years ago, at an informal AMD party where they celebrated the 10th time that they had been killed by Intel.
Burning more shareholder equity while partying like it was 1999? You're right, that does sound just like AMD :whiste:
Your link is not even from the arstechnica site. That photo was taken several years ago, at an informal AMD party where they celebrated the 10th time that they had been killed by Intel.
Aurich Lawson Ars Creative Director said:The original listing image for this story, when it was only one part and a little more grim.
Way to make yourself took even dumber.
http://arstechnica.com/business/201...derdog-stuck-it-to-intel/?comments=1&start=40
They were trying to make a nice server chip with Phenom 1 and 2. It was actually not a bad server chip when it was competing against the core 2 series, problem was with their fabs and the 65nm and 45nm production. Initially it was low yield and late, by the time AMD fixed those issues Intel was moving on past with a well executed tick tock.Bobcat/Jaguar is really the architecture AMD needed back in 2007/2008. The die size is quite small for the performance, so margins should be better.
AMD's insistence on quad cores and L3 caches already seemed odd to me when they were the value provider. They should have tried to maximize margins on small dual cores and sold as many as possible, instead they squandered market opportunities by producing native quads when the market wanted dual cores.
Give it a rest guys. Bobcat actually sold like hotcakes - and not for the embedded. Its hardly there you can fault AMDImagine how many Atom AMD could have pushed. Zero,- as they could not afford all the "design wins" for phones and tablets and as its absolutely crap for..., well its just crap for everything. The netbook market it had existed 3-5 years ago.
Way to make yourself took even dumber.
http://arstechnica.com/business/201...derdog-stuck-it-to-intel/?comments=1&start=40
This just shows that you are not reading my posts. The link to the image that I gave is from arstechnica site
http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/amd-boxer-training.jpg
The link that you give "is not from arstechnica site"
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/227626/Shared/amd-clown-burst.jpg
I repeat: the dropboxusercontent.com image is from an old informal party at AMD. Now try to guess who is the Clown...
Part of the problem is that in late 2012 and early 2013 bobcat is not selling like hotcakes anymore. It was selling very well in early 2011 and early 2012, but it is starting to decline
q2-2012 amd sold 8.423 million mobile cpus
q3-2012 amd sold 7.773 million mobile cpus
difference is a loss of 650,000 mobile cpus
during that same time period (just focusing on mobile bobcat cpu sold instead of all mobile cpus sold)
q2-2012 amd sold 5.561 million bobcat cpus
q3-2012 amd sold 4.674 million bobcat cpus
difference is 887,000 bobcat mobile cpus. The entire loss of the mobile cpu from q2 to q3 was due to less bobcat sells. AMD actually gain more high end mobile cpus from people switching from llano to trinity but this gain did not recoup the loss of bobcat
http://www.cpu-world.com/news_2012/2012112001_AMD_sold_15_4_million_CPUs_in_Q3_2012.html
During that same time period amd also lost 1.3 million desktop cpu sales comparing q2 vs q3.
A bit of the market context...
What I wrote last week said:AMD gained market share? Not that I can see:
Intel's (ticker: INTC) total fourth-quarter unit share increased 150 basis points sequentially to 84.8%, its highest since third-quarter 2002, with gains across the server, desktop and notebook segments.
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Intel share reaches another 10-year high. On a total microprocessor unit (MPU) unit basis, Intel gained roughly 150 basis points of unit share from 83.3% in third-quarter 2012 to 84.8% in fourth-quarter 2012, its largest share since reaching 86.8% in third-quarter 2002, due to gains across the server, desktop and notebook microprocessor segments.
Even if AMD did slightly increase its market share compared to Intel, it would still be trailing behind massively.
That's not context. It's you trying to shill using a year-old report while ignoring everything that shows you to be incorrect.
Accusation of shilling from a moderator? Hope there's some hard evidence to back that up![]()
My post that I just quoted was a direct response to him last week, and he posted in the thread after I posted it. Now he comes in here, ignoring that, and trying to use a year-old article to claim that Intel is losing market share.
What else would you call that?
What else would you call that?
Being a (massively overenthusiastic) fanboy.
Shilling is when he gains personally from his fanboyism (e.g. he is on the payroll for AMD, or owns stock), and is a much more serious accusation.
Accusation of shilling from a moderator? Hope there's some hard evidence to back that up![]()
You are doing that thing again, just like you did over the "Windows Home cannot use 16GB of ram" emberrasment, where you strive to prove to everyone that you are/were technically right because you just can't admit/accept that you might have been wrong.
Its fooling no one, win the battle but lose the war, and in a forum the thing you are losing is your credibility.
Picking fights and hanging on to the bitter end with semantics is just painting yourself as the kind of poster you really don't want others to assume you to be.
Learn to say the occasional "mea culpa" or "my bad", being wrong on occasion happens to everyone. However gracefully, or not, you handle it when it does happen is how you will come to be judged by your peers.
(and that is true in all walks of life, not just these forums)
My post that I just quoted was a direct response to him last week, and he posted in the thread after I posted it. Now he comes in here, ignoring that, and trying to use a year-old article to claim that Intel is losing market share [bold from mine].