AMD's CEO talks about the chip maker's future.

http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/12/07/subsidies_for_jobs/

Straight from the horse's mouth. Personally I hope that AMD sticks around; consumers need the competitive prices and innovation created by two rival companies.

 

If anything, they may become more like Apple. Take a smaller share of the processor market, while branching heavily into the GPU market.

 

I hope they go under. Oh I have to explain? ok then:

1) They bought ATi when they barely had any cash to do so in the first place.
2) They produced a lackluster product which they worked on far longer than Intel did on c2d.
3) They of course ran into cash flow problems and had to sell 8% (I think it was) of their company.

" assume you're referring to the 8% investment by Mubdala Development? This is a clear case of an investor that is expecting a certain return on its investment."

....................................................................Im not even going to explain lol.

 

Directly from the article;

Is this really something that anyone would want? Trust me monopolies are not good for an industry.

 

Until they stop doing stupid things like selling processors by a difference of 0.1ghz and actually get a decent marketing team they won't go anywhere.

 

Intel does that too. The problem with AMD is that their current Turions can't compare with similarly clocked and priced Core 2's.

 

When I bought my laptop I had to choose between tl-60 or t7250 for the same brand and series laptop. The only difference was graphics card - x2400 for Intel and hd2600 for AMD (the cost of Intel machine was a bit higher).

As I have learned Intel processor has a slight advantage and average user would not notice the difference. Therefore, I decided to stick with AMD because I might need a better graphics card to play some games.

 

You based your decision on the video card, not the processor. Neither Intel nor AMD has control over those kind of factors.

 

But I got a better system because AMD processor is cheaper and therefore it is possible to get a better other components in the system for the same price. Why should I pay for a slightly better processor which I don't need? It is wiser to pay for components which are necessary for me.

 

That's not the problem for AMD though. Right now, similarly priced Core 2's are better than the Turions.

 

most people at my school don't think there are any processors out there other than Core 2 Duo. if that's not a good indication of great marketing scheme then i don't know what is.

 

I'm hoping that AMD will release a platform that will knock Intel off-balance soon... such as their Fusion platform that combines a CPU and GPU on one chip.

 

I hope this happens I kinda dislike Nvidia because of there tactics.