[What If] AMD going out of business?

[Arkadrel]

AMD not only keep Intel from being a monopoly, but they keep Nvidia from being one too.

*IF* AMD went under... things would be bad.

I still stand by, if AMD goes under, Intel/Nvidia prices sky rocket.

 

[JimKiler]

Intel never did have anything that competed with the gpu's any of AMD's integrated chipsets - 700, 800 all blew the intel opposition at the time away with performance and driver stability. Like I say AMD having better graphics is not new - if anything Intel has got a little closer because the HD3000 is almost usable sometimes.

Anyway bottom line is the balance hasn't really changed, so it seems somewhat unlikely that the sales will change that much either.

Now if AMD could produce a cpu that was equal/better to the Intel opposition that might really change things (like they did with the E-350 vs atom in netbooks) ... but llano isn't that cpu.

How much does CPU performance matter? when we had single cores the speed really mattered but now that we have quad cores or more does it really matter? To me I cannot say yes it matters to pay more for intel which is why I have not bought intel since the Pentium II days. When I went to my last system a Phenom 2 the motherboard alone for Intel was well over $200.

I think an AMD CPU would be fine for >90% of the market even with all the stuff the new Sandy Bridge chips do.

 

[krumme]

Ask Otellini
Because he talked to much in the phone with Michael in the p4 days
AMD can now produce x86 at TSMC
Does Otellini like that? Thats what the Intel Amd deal is all about. He hates it because he still have to keep AMD alive, and at the same time suddenly risk loads of cheap cpu from a pdf

 

[drizek]

We all want to know more about the future, but once GF gets 28nm up and running, I don't think AMD will build X86 chips at TSMC anymore.

 

[happy medium]

[What If] AMD going out of business?

Alot of people in the video forum would lose there jobs.

 

[mosox]

[What If] AMD going out of business?

Alot of people in the video forum would lose there jobs.

I suppose that was a hint at the Nvidia Focus Group dudes. They're "paid" by the post.
http://consumerist.com/2006/02/did-nvidia-hire-online-actors-to-promote-their-products.html

 

[lol123]

With the problems that AMD has always had with the manufacturing side, and with the potential of stealing away some of Intel's large profits on the x86 market with a better manufacturing process and capacity, why isn't there a deeper relationship with IBM, maybe going as far as a buyout? I remember reading in an old Tom's Hardware article that the thought of this scared Intel beyond belief. So why isn't it happening? Could it really be the case that AMD's x86 license is void in the event of a buyout?

Here is the article btw: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-merge,1774-6.html