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AMD finally turned a profit this quarter! Plus, though slow consoles and crypto will hurt a little, that's really only their existing business. Their future is
by TazeTSchnitzel 9y ago
AMD finally turned a profit this quarter!
Plus, though slow consoles and crypto will hurt a little, that's really only their existing business. Their future is in their new and competitive product lineup from this year. Epyc particularly should be very good for AMD if it can gain momentum: expensive server CPUs that AMD can manufacture cost-efficiently, and which are competitive with or straightforwardly better than Intel in certain use-cases.
(full disclosure: I indirectly own AMD stock because I expect next year will be better.)
- MulliMulli 9y agoThis week: Sony profits rise 346% thanks to strong performance from PlayStation gaming unit Next week: New Xbox and new Playstation will be released. I don't get how they can claim that consoles will slow down.
- agumonkey 9y agoMaybe the new models aren't equipped with AMD chips ? Also AMD had to cut profits on the previous console CPUs IIRC. So that's not a "value" for the stock market.
- TazeTSchnitzel 9y agoIt's still semi-custom AMD silicon (but new and improved!). I don't think they could actually switch GPU architecture within the console lifecycle without breaking things, and there's also nobody to go to anyway (who else makes semi-custom high-performance x64 SoCs, let alone with decent graphics?).
- agumonkey 9y agoYeah I was overly cautious, it would be high risk to pull the rug at that time.
- MulliMulli 9y agoBoth are powered by AMD, and it has been confirmed for almost a year.
- milcron 9y agoNintendo is finally switching to Nvidia.
- esturk 9y agoI know about the Xbox one x, but where did you hear about a new PlayStation being released or announced?
- MulliMulli 9y agoSorry, my fault - was talking about the PS Pro, which also has AMD in it.