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What does this even mean, haha. AMD is an also ran competing on price. It has no competitive advantages, no moat, weak brand. That is has a 180 PE is an absolut
by KaoruAoiShiho 7y ago
What does this even mean, haha. AMD is an also ran competing on price. It has no competitive advantages, no moat, weak brand. That is has a 180 PE is an absolute joke. It's so high purely because the culture really dislikes Intel/nvidia making so much money on their pricey products and wants a viable competitor badly. This leads to them emotionally becoming invested into the alternative even though objectively it's not a fast growing nor defensive business.
FB on the other hand. Incredible profit growth year after year. Powerful network effects leads them into crushing new markets all the time. Huge profits from their monopolies lets them easily take cool risks. The whole comment about MySpace/social media is exactly what I'm talking about. Males who are nerdy are extremely dismissive of products that are mostly used by women or other people from different milieus. People have a hard time pulling for companies that they don't see succeeding, it's a cognitive error leading to imagination inflation. Know your biases.
Please, keep this thread in mind in 5 years!
- ric2b 7y ago> It has no competitive advantages, no moat, weak brand. Competitive advantage: it has more experience in GPU's than Intel, it is more flexible in terms of fab tech because it doesn't run it's own fabs, it can switch easily to a different fab. Moat: Seriously? High-end chip design is one of the hardest industries to get into, you think some startup can just enter the market? Weak brand: It's very well known in the whole world and has no negative associations, I don't even know what you mean with this.
- dralley 7y agoDon't forget they have the competitive advantage of chiplets which enables higher yields, and the moat of the x86/AMD64 cross licensing agreement with Intel. Intel and AMD are effectively the only organizations that can legally produce modern x86 CPUs even if others had the technical knowledge to do so.