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Why would AMD want to make less money?
by sbierwagen 5y ago
Why would AMD want to make less money?
- babypuncher 5y agoHow would selling even more GPUs make them even less money? Right now their problem is that they literally cannot make RX 6000 series cards fast enough.Adding more GPU capacity in the form of reissued 14nm chips to fill some of the gap in demand would not result in fewer RX 6000 cards sold. People just want something, anything they can buy today to hold them over until they can get their hands on something good.
- rozab 5y agoThere are basically no cards available on the consumer market. Nobody is making money in this space. I was looking this week for a replacement for the GPU I bought in 2014 for £80 (r7 260x). The only sub-£600 card available on any site when I checked was the GeForce GT 1030, which would give me slightly worse performance for £90. The situation is unbelievably dire.
- greggyb 5y agoRather, everyone is making money, but the OEMs could make more if they'd be willing to raise MSRP. It's a shortage of supply, not a stoppage.
- woliveirajr 5y ago> and AMD in turn is required to pay for these wafers, whether they use this capacity or not. > AMD expects to buy approximately $1.6 billion [≈ box office sales of Bambi, 1942] in wafers from GlobalFoundries in the 2022 to 2024 period. They'll pay for it, anyway, $1.6bi. I'm pretty sure that there's a way to spend $1.6bi to make GPUs and sell it in the long-tail consumer spectrum without bitting your sales. And create the desire, on those users, to upgrade to a better GPU in the future. Or don't even make money about it, just ensure that your competitors will have to lose money too.