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AMD Will Lay off 15 percent of works.

Theres a big thread in the CPU forum related to this. The GPU side is probably relatively profitable for them so I'm guessing the cuts won't affect it as much in that regard.

EDIT: I believe the problem is management and not the people who designed bulldozer - I've not followed it in detail so I could be wrong but IIRC the people who were developing it wanted to do one thing and were told to do another (under protest) which produced worse results.
 
Rroff said:
Theres a big thread in the CPU forum related to this. The GPU side is probably relatively profitable for them so I'm guessing the cuts won't affect it as much in that regard.

EDIT: I believe the problem is management and not the people who designed bulldozer - I've not followed it in detail so I could be wrong but IIRC the people who were developing it wanted to do one thing and were told to do another (under protest) which produced worse results.
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I face that a lot as management like to cut corners.
 
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gregster said:
Me too. Our workfore has been cut from some 300 workers to 150 and still expected to do the same amount of work...Sorry I went off on one then.

Rage over :mad:
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My angle is the product as they ask us to do it in an inefficient way while also greatly increasing the chances of errors leading to a lower quality than it could have been product.
 
LambChop said:
Poor company, poor products, just shows how well they are performing when they cant keep their staff.
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I suppose your homebrew CPUs and GPUs are superb :rolleyes:

AMD can't compete on the bleeding edge of desktop CPUs but they are doing really well (believe it or not) to stay in the game at all. Bulldozer wasn't great for home users, it wasn't nearly as bad as some would paint it. They are server parts, half baked for the home market. Piledriver is making moves in the right direction.

There APUs, particularly mobile Trinity (PD cores), are superb. The GPU side of the business has always kept Nvidia honest.

I suppose you dream of a utopia where only Intel and Nvidia exist to supply the computer market? Sounds 'mazin
 
I don't think their GPU wing is in any kind of problems. Nobody's said so yet but worth (re)stating.

Competition is very good here and AMD cards are now, with the new drivers, offering a strong all round package.

Even if the worst does happen then at least they will have a strong product to keep or sell on.
 
d_brennen said:
I suppose your homebrew CPUs and GPUs are superb :rolleyes:

AMD can't compete on the bleeding edge of desktop CPUs but they are doing really well (believe it or not) to stay in the game at all. Bulldozer wasn't great for home users, it wasn't nearly as bad as some would paint it. They are server parts, half baked for the home market. Piledriver is making moves in the right direction.

There APUs, particularly mobile Trinity (PD cores), are superb. The GPU side of the business has always kept Nvidia honest.

I suppose you dream of a utopia where only Intel and Nvidia exist to supply the computer market? Sounds 'mazin
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Nail on the head.

Unless they can come up with something amazing, they can't compete in the high end CPU market, but they really excel at the low end spectrum with those APUs.

A monopoly with an evil company like nVidia having the possession of the entire company simply is not a good thing for the consumer.
 
Its all a big Jigsaw and will come together in time hopefully

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6418/...d-opteron-cpus-for-servers-production-in-2014

AMD has two brand new markets that AMD will be first in e.g. Professional Tablets and ARM X64/X86 HPC, although there will be others that will come from mutation in future (GPU+ARM). AMD is in the best position to hurt Intel by joining ARM. I think the future is bright for AMD over most others even though AMD is in a bit of a pickle at the moment.

http://www.techpowerup.com/174649/A...6-and-ARM-Processors-for-the-Data-Center.html

"AMD led the data center transition to mainstream 64-bit computing with AMD64, and with our ambidextrous strategy we will again lead the next major industry inflection point by driving the widespread adoption of energy-efficient 64-bit server processors based on both the x86 and ARM architectures," said Rory Read, president and chief executive officer, AMD. "Through our collaboration with ARM, we are building on AMD's rich IP portfolio, including our deep 64-bit processor knowledge and industry-leading AMD SeaMicro Freedom supercompute fabric, to offer the most flexible and complete processing solutions for the modern data center."
 
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AMD are years away from getting a decent soc, just look at howong its taken Intel to get Atom ready and even now its still not as good on paper as arm alternatives. AMD should concnetrate on the PC and notebook markets because its worth a fortune and more profitable then spending millions on developing a SOC in a market thats ruled by ARM which doean't have the greatest returns (ARM only gets a few cents for each chip that uses its technology).
 
I wonder if this is why the AMD cards are coming down in price so fast and all these game bundle promotions?

Also did they have these beta drivers stored away for such a rainy day as such?

The have managed to convert a lot of people these past weeks, i hope they are not in trouble.

Look whats happening to THQ, when you branch out and try take a piece of every market you lose.
 
Rroff said:
Theres a big thread in the CPU forum related to this. The GPU side is probably relatively profitable for them so I'm guessing the cuts won't affect it as much in that regard.

EDIT: I believe the problem is management and not the people who designed bulldozer - I've not followed it in detail so I could be wrong but IIRC the people who were developing it wanted to do one thing and were told to do another (under protest) which produced worse results.
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I think the problem is that AMD's marketing department finally caught up to where Intel were in 2003. That is to say "MORE GIGAHERTZ".
 
d_brennen said:
I suppose your homebrew CPUs and GPUs are superb :rolleyes:

AMD can't compete on the bleeding edge of desktop CPUs but they are doing really well (believe it or not) to stay in the game at all. Bulldozer wasn't great for home users, it wasn't nearly as bad as some would paint it. They are server parts, half baked for the home market. Piledriver is making moves in the right direction.

There APUs, particularly mobile Trinity (PD cores), are superb. The GPU side of the business has always kept Nvidia honest.

I suppose you dream of a utopia where only Intel and Nvidia exist to supply the computer market? Sounds 'mazin
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Ah that old chestnut, I am not allowed to critisize as I don't make cpu's and gpu's myself ? LOL. I buy a car I'm not happy with, I cant take it back as I dont make cars ? **** me.

Tell you what, If It was nvidia doing this, there would be post after post of flaming at them. Shoe on the other foot, well god forbid anything is said in this AMD forum.
 
It was said; Bulldozer was designed to be versatile and very excepting of other IP (ARM) and we are seeing that come to life slowly (2014 RR). I think AMD did extremely well with an architecture that was designed to be modular in nature.

The foundation is already in place (The worst is behind) and it can only get better from here on - Even HSA is part of that ecosystem that every major company is participating in. I would say its going to be bad for companies not involved (aka Intel and Nvidia).
 
MAK360 said:
It was said; Bulldozer was designed to be versatile and very excepting of other IP (ARM) and we are seeing that come to life slowly (2014 RR). I think AMD did extremely well with an architecture that was designed to be modular in nature.

The foundation is already in place (The worst is behind) and it can only get better from here on - Even HSA is part of that ecosystem that every major company is participating in. I would say its going to be bad for companies not involved (aka Intel and Nvidia).
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Tony Blair said the same and look how that turned out....
 
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