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So it is time to buy new CPU and GPU?
by akerro 11y ago
So it is time to buy new CPU and GPU?
- creshal 11y agoAMD's finances have been miserable for ten years, and they always managed to find new investors.
- tormeh 11y agoIt's kinda weird, actually. I mean, AMD often has really interesting ideas that may be easy to sell, but execution is always bad and the brand is damaged.
- tankenmate 11y agoAMD's execution being bad has been provably Intel's fault at times; Intel has been proven to use anti-competetive contracts in the past with their customers (HP, Dell, etc), i.e. limit good CPU prices/discounts unless customers limit their use of AMD.
- creshal 11y agoThat was ten years ago. Ever since, AMD had a free playing field… not that it helped.
- valarauca1 11y agoAMD is playing a fair field, but they aren't innovating. Their top of the line processors haven't received changes in 2 years.
- ant6n 11y agoWell they are trying to innovate: hbm, apus, vr. The 22nm process node they wanted to use was cancelled, and now they're basically working to push it their 14nm products instead. Kind of such (edit:sux) for them to be fabless.
- valarauca1 11y agoThey'll have it. Zen will be 14nm process. I'm excited for Zen, AMD does good things when the wipe the board clean and start over.
- PeCaN 11y agoAlso they brought on the guy responsible for some of the earlier iPhone processors, which had great single-threaded performance (AMD's weakest point right now).
- greggyb 11y agoJim Keller, their previous lead architect, has left again. The Zen design would have been complete or nearly so by the time he left, but it looks like they're already slipping on their original time frame. I'm looking forward to what they do, but it's not without some bumps in the road yet.
- creshal 11y agoLike they did with Bulldozer…?
- creshal 11y ago> Kind of such for then to be fabless. Shouldn't have sold their fabs, then.
- ant6n 11y agoTrue. But you know how people say things like "people have been predicted AMD bankruptcy for 10 years, and they're still going". Well the reason they're still alive is because they flogged all the silver. And they hocked their teeth. And the company is deeply in debt. The company is worth negative equity, which the market still values at 2B.
- jamstruth 11y agoThere was a little while when AMD had the advantage, wasn't there? Putting out 64-bit and dual-cores while Intel was struggling with the Pentium 4 architecture.
- tankenmate 11y agoThat is what lead to Intel's behaviour; in doing so they limited AMD free cash flow, and in turn limited AMD ability to fund newer die shrinks. And Intel's main advantage over AMD at the moment is the fact that it is one die shrink generation ahead.
- creshal 11y agoThe Intel antitrust lawsuit was on Intel's behaviour in the 90s – it just took until 2005 to finally reach US courts (it was filed with the EC in 2000). By the time AMD had competitive CPUs, Intel had already stopped their practices to avoid further scrutiny. AMD just stopped being competitive too quickly to gain a proper foothold.
- tankenmate 11y agoIt's in Intel's best interest that they can find investors; whether they have influenced this is an open question.
- akerro 11y agohttp://hackaday.com/2015/12/09/echo-of-the-bunnymen-how-amd-won-then-lost/ http://hackaday.com/2015/12/09/echo-of-the-bunnymen-how-amd-... for reference
- driverdan 11y agoDo you think your CPU and GPU will stop working if they go out of business?
- creshal 11y agoWell, the GPU at least would quickly become useless without driver updates. Every time a new AAA title is released, Nvidia and AMD scramble to work around game bugs inside their drivers because the developers don't care.
- tarpherder 11y agoThey care, but drivers contain bugs too. Your attitude seems overly negative without much argumentation. Are you sure your negativity is warranted?
- ghrifter 11y ago>> drivers because the developers don't care Yeah because developers have unlimited access to all sorts of GPU/CPU combos that the customers have...
- akerro 11y agoI meant, I need to buy new AMD CPU and GPU.
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