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AMD Will Lay off 15 percent of works.

Robbiec053 said:
Trinity effectively gives them the market on APU's which, if marketed right, should be first choice for all store bought PC's for the next year or two.

It's a shame but after bulldozer and all the publicity that surrounded it, i'm sure the staff responsible expected this.
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The problem is Intel sells its chips cheaper to oem's then AMD can afford to. Price was the only thing that stopped Intel from disappearing during the Pentium 4/Athlon 64 days with the likes of Dell stubbonling refusing to use AMD chips.
 
AMD's APU is really good, which will help them put more of their products in desktop and laptops.
 
Freddie1980 said:
The problem is Intel sells its chips cheaper to oem's then AMD can afford to. Price was the only thing that stopped Intel from disappearing during the Pentium 4/Athlon 64 days with the likes of Dell stubbonling refusing to use AMD chips.
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As I remember Intel paid Dell not to use AMD processors. Is that correct anybody?
 
Meaker said:
I proved one of the graphs he was using as false...... months ago.
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No, you tryed and faild in that.


Rroff said:
Yeah unfortunately GPUs are only a part of their business and alone can't prop them up - tho dropping a killer 8000 series part on the market about now would probably go a long way towards keeping the people that matter sweet.
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I would not be at all surprised if they waited for Nvidia to show their hand this time.

The 7### series cards are at least on Parr with anything Nvidia have and at a lower price, whats more they are selling well now, those results will be seen in the next quarter.

Going on about thier 8### series GPU isn't going to make a difference. What it might do is stop people from buying GPU's at all in waiting for the new cards, which could be a year away.
They are doing the right thing in shutting up about it.
 
They are certainly priced to sell the 7xxx well this quarter, so I don't expect a 8xxx announcement till after Xmas. I also think they will try and get their cards to market before nvidia again.

Remember the benefit of this was that they could sell the 7950's at £350 for example, which is a huge markup in terms of profit than what they are selling at now. If you have an advantage of any sort you have to press it home :cool:
 
psychodil said:
As I remember Intel paid Dell not to use AMD processors. Is that correct anybody?
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Intel were offring massive rebates to some PC manufacturers*which they said was for marketing but more likely to keep AMD out.

AMD had its own problems even in the Athlon64 era poor manangement decisions and bad invesments meant it could produce CPU's in the sort of volume Intel could so if your a buyer at Dell or HP you could argee that you won't buy AMD because they can't supply enough product leaving orders unfullfiled.
 
humbug said:
Going on about thier 8### series GPU isn't going to make a difference. What it might do is stop people from buying GPU's at all in waiting for the new cards, which could be a year away.
They are doing the right thing in shutting up about it.
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Yeah if it was a year away it wouldn't be a great idea to shout about it now but they are going to be operating at a loss anyway (overall business) so the loss there would be minimal compared to the potential good publicity that they are more in need of atm.
 
I think the AMD 7 series did Nvidia a favour(performance wise). I think they were struggling with the high end part but when they saw how the AMD 7 series performed it gave them some breathing space and allowed them to release the 680 in the guise it is.

No proof of any of this, just my take on it.
 
dave_beast said:
I really hope Nvidia sort their gpu pricing/performance out and answer AMD, as the last thing anyone wants is a monopoly in the gpu market.
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Doubt AMD's GPUs are going anywhere even if AMD did collapse the GPU arm divested from the main company is worth quite a lot to the right company.
 
dave_beast said:
I really hope Nvidia sort their gpu pricing/performance out and answer AMD, as the last thing anyone wants is a monopoly in the gpu market.
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Lol, thats not going to happen anytime soon, but I'm guessing that was tongue in cheek :p

In other news, the 299,000 AMD cores in the new Titan supercomputer will help the coffers a little bit :D

Wonder what it gets in Cinebench :p
 
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