AMD quits...
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News sites have blown this out of proportion. AMD meant there are more players now than AMD vs Intel. What news sites read was, "AMD is quitting desktop x86 CPUz!!!"
http://www.extremetech.com/mobile/107133-amd-to-attempt-self-resurrection-but-not-with-arm
http://www.extremetech.com/mobile/107133-amd-to-attempt-self-resurrection-but-not-with-arm
wotevajjjj
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from what I understood, it says amd stopped developing 64bit cpu's so no more "high-end" stuff (not that they had that anyway)
No idea where you got that from. Couldn't be further from the truth.
wotevajjjj
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ok, thanks for making that clear.
This is my opinion, but I think AMD is going to keep it's focus on low power and mid/low range. More money is made in these segments anyway and you get less bad silicon from the fabs. Most businesses and home users don't want or care about overclocking or the high end, they want stable, lower power usage, and cheap. That's not saying that AMD won't still have higher end parts, but I don't think we will be seeing AMD try to take Intel head on anymore with the top end.
Much agreed.
Sounds to me like they're going to attempt to break into new markets rather than quitting the one they're currently heavily invested in.
Which makes perfect sense - Intel mercilessly dominates the X86 (after all X86 is their invention) and AMD simply cannot, demonstrably, compete to a favorable degree. Sure they've got a consumer base and are in profit, but they have most likely come to the conclusion that they could profit more by expanding their boundaries into markets that aren't so heavily one sided and stop throwing quite so much of their money at the brick wall that is Intel.
They'll still be a participant, but they are no longer focusing solely on X86.
Which makes perfect sense - Intel mercilessly dominates the X86 (after all X86 is their invention) and AMD simply cannot, demonstrably, compete to a favorable degree. Sure they've got a consumer base and are in profit, but they have most likely come to the conclusion that they could profit more by expanding their boundaries into markets that aren't so heavily one sided and stop throwing quite so much of their money at the brick wall that is Intel.
They'll still be a participant, but they are no longer focusing solely on X86.
nothingspecial
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I read it as they're giving up on x86 arcitecture, so maybe working on ARM-based chips, or even a whole new AMD architecture to compete with x86 and ARM/Tegra/etc...
Don't think we'll see anything from that for many years though... Who knows?
Don't think we'll see anything from that for many years though... Who knows?
"AMD is a leader in x86 microprocessor design, and we remain committed to the x86 market," AMD said in a statement this week.
They're definitely not giving up on X86 unless they're doing the opposite of what they said
Future predictions from this news
Intel
- will become lazy and prices will go up (no one is officially a competition now)
AMD
- will have a hard time in the tablet market
-- its already populated by nvidia (tegra 2-3) and apple (A4-A5)
- will do good in the RAM market, thinking they will make new discoveries (DDR4-5)
- devote people and machines (28mm cmos chip maker) for there AMD graphics witch may help them in the GPU market
so yeah there, comment as u wish
Intel
- will become lazy and prices will go up (no one is officially a competition now)
AMD
- will have a hard time in the tablet market
-- its already populated by nvidia (tegra 2-3) and apple (A4-A5)
- will do good in the RAM market, thinking they will make new discoveries (DDR4-5)
- devote people and machines (28mm cmos chip maker) for there AMD graphics witch may help them in the GPU market
so yeah there, comment as u wish
proffesorDub
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Okay, AMD may take a different focus. However, this can have a likely outcome of intel becoming lazy and just pricing people out of the market. If AMD bow out of gaming side of things, they are just going to push their prices up so they can. Personally i always buy amd as I dont have the cash to spend intel chipsets.
