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I'm just glad AMD are still competitive. Seemed like for a few years there they might almost gone out of business. I think consoles have helped keep them afloa

I'm just glad AMD are still competitive. Seemed like for a few years there they might almost gone out of business. I think consoles have helped keep them afloat in the bad years too. Obviously Intel will respond to this (either via hardware or pricing) but the fact they even need to respond to something is a good thing. The only thing that has been eating Intel's lunch in recent years was mobile.

leeoniya 9y ago
> I think consoles have helped keep them afloat in the bad years too. That and their desktop GPUs. Their ATI acquisition turned out to be pretty vital.
- digitalzombie 9y ago
  I swear I thought ATI had diverted their attention away from CPU so they lost the edge. I feel like they were doing well until they bought ATI. Then they ran out of cash, less R&D money, and then they had to spin their fab to global foundry. Now it seems like CPU is slowing down while GPU is growing especially in scientific stuff. Super glad they're decent now, hopefully good. I don't want to deal with Intel monopoly.
  - kartD 9y ago
    AMD screwed up when they decided to make something similar to the P4 arch (high clock speed, long pipeline) after they spent the previous 5-7 years beating it using high IPC, lower clock speed cores. I still don't get why they did this...
unethical_ban 9y ago
AMD cannot go out of business, in my opinion. They are the only other company licensed to produce x86, and the license is non-transferable. If they die, Intel faces instant monopoly issues. AMD will stay around. Next time their stock dips big one day, get some.
- Already__Taken 9y ago
  This was my opinion 5 - 7 years ago. I wish I wasn't afraid to buy stocks.
szatkus 9y ago
Interesting that their console microarch (Jaguar) was really great. So good that even after Intel one-upped them with non-crappy Atoms (Silvermont) they released competetive offering which was basically just an evolution (Puma).

leeoniya 9y ago

> I think consoles have helped keep them afloat in the bad years too. That and their desktop GPUs. Their ATI acquisition turned out to be pretty vital.

digitalzombie 9y ago
I swear I thought ATI had diverted their attention away from CPU so they lost the edge. I feel like they were doing well until they bought ATI. Then they ran out of cash, less R&D money, and then they had to spin their fab to global foundry. Now it seems like CPU is slowing down while GPU is growing especially in scientific stuff. Super glad they're decent now, hopefully good. I don't want to deal with Intel monopoly.
- kartD 9y ago
  AMD screwed up when they decided to make something similar to the P4 arch (high clock speed, long pipeline) after they spent the previous 5-7 years beating it using high IPC, lower clock speed cores. I still don't get why they did this...

unethical_ban 9y ago

AMD cannot go out of business, in my opinion. They are the only other company licensed to produce x86, and the license is non-transferable. If they die, Intel faces instant monopoly issues. AMD will stay around. Next time their stock dips big one day, get some.

Already__Taken 9y ago
This was my opinion 5 - 7 years ago. I wish I wasn't afraid to buy stocks.

szatkus 9y ago

Interesting that their console microarch (Jaguar) was really great. So good that even after Intel one-upped them with non-crappy Atoms (Silvermont) they released competetive offering which was basically just an evolution (Puma).