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AMD has been pathetic business wise for a long time now. Everything they do is stupid and makes no sense, they seem to be paralysed from the inside. Even when t
by rasz_pl 12y ago
AMD has been pathetic business wise for a long time now. Everything they do is stupid and makes no sense, they seem to be paralysed from the inside. Even when they manage to roll out a product it doesnt go nowhere. All their mobile APU announcements are on paper, there is no hardware on the market(or rather one small product that goes unnoticed and quickly discontinued). The only solid division left is GPU, the remnants of ATI. AMD used to do great things. They took Alpha, glued x86 decoders, married it with Motorola SOI process and BEAT Intel leading desktop PC performance race thru year 2000.
Nowadays? They sit on ARM SoC for 2 years now, while small Chinese shops ship new chips every 6-9 months. Even Nvidia was able to ship something (slow, too late, and too expensive, but they SHIPPED every time). It seems like there is someone at AMD simply deciding its not worth the effort to even try. Like this SeaMicro - W T F? You buy 300mil company and do NOTHING?
Yes AMD, micro server business didnt sell any of your chips .. because you DIDNT EFFIN TRIED TO SELL ANYTHING :/
This is the sign of Ivory Tower thinking at AMD HQ. They are all too smart, too well off, to content with life and too disconnected to do anything. Only hungry desperate people are able to make leaps, AMD forgot to be hungry.
- higherpurpose 12y agoAgreed with everything you said. AMD has no long-term prospective. It would be much better for the company if it were acquired by a cash-rich company such as Samsung or Qualcomm that has a vision, can attract talented engineers rather than lose them, and can actually ship products on a process that is close enough to Intel's, not 2-3 generations behind. I just hope they won't wait to sell until they put the company in the ground and nobody can salvage it anymore, other than buy it for the patents. If I were them I'd rather sell it now at a discount than it can still be turned around, rather than sell it 5-7 years from now at 30% of its current market value. In other words, don't wait until they are Blackberry with 1% market share.
- pekk 12y agoPeople have been saying this about AMD for many years. Those things they did that you think are great, there was someone complaining about how stupid AMD was at the time they did them.
- cc438 12y ago>"They seem to be paralysed from the inside." I agree with your assessment but I think it's more than a leadership issue, AMD is in a financial hole in a market where billion dollar investments are needed just to maintain your market position. They don't have the capital needed to maintain relevancy in their primary market (x86 chips) and they definitely don't have the capital needed to gain a strong foothold in the rapidly maturing ARM market. Their window of opportunity has passed as long as Intel maintains the non-transferable nature of their x86 license. Their downfall was their insistence on pushing out Bulldozer despite the fundamental flaws in its concept. They spent ~5 years pursuing that architecture as their main path for R&D, wasting massive amounts of money in the process. If AMD had scrapped Bulldozer when they first knew it would miss their performance target they would have been able to pursue one of the many suggested alternative routes for the future. IMO, the best suggestions would have been ARM or low power APUs when the original Atoms were the only option and terribly slow.