Intel wins no more AMD
 

AMD sux couldnt hang and gives up

In a move than could very well be interpreted as exchanging one problem for another, Advanced Micro Devices has decided to stop focusing so much on the PC business and get its act closer together on the mobile front.

The Bulldozer disaster, as it is known in some circles, must have persuaded AMD's leadership that the PC side of their business wasn't flying very well and far anymore.

Though everyone was expecting much from 8-core processors, the performance was, in the end, well lower than some of AMD's own previous-generation chips.

Whether because of this or something else, it was reported that Advanced Micro Devices has chosen to distance itself from its competition with Intel.

That is to say, it will focus less on processors for PCs and pay more attention to the mobile market.

As such, it will probably start to customize its Fusion platform in such a way as to create tablet and smartphone chips.

"We're at an inflection point," said AMD spokesman Mike Silverman, according to a Mercury News report. "We will all need to let go of the old 'AMD versus Intel' mindset, because it won't be about that anymore."

If anything, 2011, with more than half a year of lacking an actual CEO, was a clear symptom that Advanced Micro Devices had to do something, and soon.

The company has a new leader now and, sure enough, the man took some fairly drastic measures, and that includes more than this latest change in direction, as well as a branded RAM project.

The workforce also suffered, especially the PR and marketing departments (AMD axed large portions of each as part of its plan to cut total worldwide employee count by 10%).

The complicated thing about the focus on mobile is that ARM already has that well enough in hand, and NVIDIA just launched the Kal-El too. AMD may just be exchanging one headache for another with this.

Down with shitty processors!

This is in no way good news, if you want a company to be driven to produce quality products it can't have a monopoly on the market. Competition breeds innovation, now intel has the market cornered.

give me i7 and im fine for life

AMD has been tragically inferior since at least core2duo so Intel really hasn't had competition since 2006 anyways. AMD will still sell their old processors, they just aren't going to pour $ into developing new ones. The only thing is Intel can easily charge even more for their newer CPUs now, but if it gets ridiculous down the line there will be antitrust suits I'm sure.

That was the beginning of the end for AMD

here is a CPU built in minecraft that is faster than AMD processors

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PnPSlLWRig

lol some nerds made a dual core one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=EaWo68CWWGM

about to buy a tower with an i7.. pretty pretty excited.

of course i'll be using it for PSX Emus and an online free to play FPS game, but hey fuck it nomsan?

I was going to buy a new video card to put Skyrim on ultra.

Then I read some tech reports saying CPU was more important for the Creation engine.

Now I want to build a whole new computer and put my old computer guts into the computer that's sitting in the living room to coincide with a PS3. Then I want to put the guts of the original computer out in the living room into another case as a file server.

Then I might be getting another computer if my coworker decides buying a new video card isn't worth it~


All for Skyrim.

nawudumane.