Private firm to buy 20 per cent of AMD

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A Private Equity firm called Silver Lake is about to buy 20% of AMD, giving the company some much needed funding and support. Will this bring AMD back into the big leagues?

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I looked this firm up.. yep. They sure know wth they are doing but from what I can see no experience with a company like AMD in regards to FABs/designing chips. So while the investment is good, hopefully they can get AMDs portfolio on track and improve their market situation.
 
Even though I am a big AMD fan, I have to be honest..

I can't think of any reason why any firm would buy a large stake in AMD now. I mean their revenue is declining year after year, they're still loss making, and their stock has crashed and crashed over the recent years. It's a god awful investment looking at their performance over the last number of years.

BUT!... maybe this firm knows something we don't. Maybe Zen will be the break that AMD needs? ^_^
 
Or maybe the DX12 Nvidia problem is bigger than we think and these people are seeing that AMD are going to take over the world.
 
Even though I am a big AMD fan, I have to be honest..

I can't think of any reason why any firm would buy a large stake in AMD now. I mean their revenue is declining year after year, they're still loss making, and their stock has crashed and crashed over the recent years. It's a god awful investment looking at their performance over the last number of years.

BUT!... maybe this firm knows something we don't. Maybe Zen will be the break that AMD needs? ^_^

They are an investment company. They make risks and hope for huge rewards. They have invested in many companies and now all their partners bring in over $85Billion in revenue every year. They seem to make and help build companies. Hopefully they can apply their skills to AMD which desperately needs the help.
 
I can see why they only bought 20%. Its could be a wise investment seeing the recent potential that AMD have but at the same time its (probably) not such a chunk of money as to be a massive dent if it goes belly up.

Here's hoping AMD put the money into some more R&D for Zen and future GPUs. They seem to have more competent management these days so I can't see why they wouldn't do that.
 
They are an investment company. They make risks and hope for huge rewards. They have invested in many companies and now all their partners bring in over $85Billion in revenue every year. They seem to make and help build companies. Hopefully they can apply their skills to AMD which desperately needs the help.
Well you do want at least some potential of growth in the company, to be honest I don't know has AMD much potential for proper sustained growth after their decline over the years. As it is now, it really depends on their 2016 products, it's sort of do or die for them now.

On the other hand, now that I check, 20% of AMD is about $300m. Chump change to a company like that so why not, I guess? ^_^
 
Well you do want at least some potential of growth in the company, to be honest I don't know has AMD much potential for proper sustained growth after their decline over the years. As it is now, it really depends on their 2016 products, it's sort of do or die for them now.

On the other hand, now that I check, 20% of AMD is about $300m. Chump change to a company like that so why not, I guess? ^_^

I just want them to help out AMD.. need some competition!^_^
 
Or maybe the DX12 Nvidia problem is bigger than we think and these people are seeing that AMD are going to take over the world.

That is what came to my mind at first also. Also add in the fact that AMD has priority on HBM2 over Nvidia. I am curious if the odds are that Pascal is fundamentally broken from a design that's been on the board for a couple of years now to the point they could just scrap it and start over with the delay over prioritization of HBM2 to AMD. Either way, AMD is poised to take back a lot of market share over the next year I think.
 
That is what came to my mind at first also. Also add in the fact that AMD has priority on HBM2 over Nvidia.

AMD only has priority with HBM produced by SK Hynix, but since HBM is now a JEDEC standards other manufacturers are going to produce it. So nvidia could have HBM2 just at the same time as AMD but not shipped by SK Hynix ( probably by Samsung )
 
I am sure Samsung will make an impact, but they are not even starting mass production until H1 of 2016. That's a pretty big speculative time frame.
 
Given that Samsung offered to buy the whole company last year, it shows they knew something no one else did *cough HBM! Now it's come to light and showing some real promise, I'm not surprised at all that companies are now wanting a piece of the action and with this "buy in" I'd expect to see some real improvements and competition in the not to distant future. Kudos AMD for sticking to your guns, 2016 - 17 will be their time to shine.
 
Given that Samsung offered to buy the whole company last year, it shows they knew something no one else did *cough HBM! Now it's come to light and showing some real promise, I'm not surprised at all that companies are now wanting a piece of the action and with this "buy in" I'd expect to see some real improvements and competition in the not to distant future. Kudos AMD for sticking to your guns, 2016 - 17 will be their time to shine.

Lets hope so I would be so pleased if AMD could pull that rabbit out of their hat :)
 
I've read today, that AMD finally is having a division just dedicated to their graphic department called Radeon Technologies Group. This is great in my opinion because it allows them not only continue to provide competitively priced graphic cards but also to finally provide better driver support. Bad driver support is probably the majority reason why gamers flock to Nvidia. Who wants a product that is not properly supported? As for their CPU department, their best lineup, especially in the laptop department, are equivalent to Intel's worst. They are nonexistent in the tablet and cellphone market and even though Intel doesn't fare well either in those categories they continue to dominate the laptops and desktop platforms. With this spinoff division, I have a strong feeling that their CPU department is going the way of the DoDo bird or in base case get bought out.
 
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