Time will tell, either way AMD seem to be turning things around which is always better than having someone dominate the market
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Thanks to consoles, AMD posts first profit in over a year
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Time will tell, either way AMD seem to be turning things around which is always better than having someone dominate the market
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Time will tell, either way AMD seem to be turning things around which is always better than having someone dominate the market
If only they could make some cpu's that would threaten Intel, the GPU's are fine, good price for performance but the cpu's, gah, do better AMD.
Steamroller based CPUs look like being at the very least competitive to the Intel offerings they will be up against, don't think there will be any nasty suprises for Intel but they do atleast look on paper like being a credible alternative which might provoke some price shake ups.
There is no better proof for AMD's embedded strategy (Which includes the new Game Consoles) than their gross revenue. which in this quarter is $1.46bn, up from $1.16bn last quarter, and $1.09bn in Q1. a 27% increase on Q2 and 30% increase on Q1.
This despite AMD's traditional PC market continuing to shrink.
AMD's profit margin is 35%, down 1 percentage point on Q2
As for debts, AMD are asset positive, they have 50% more in assets than they do in total long term debt.
Its looking good for AMD at this point.
This despite AMD's traditional PC market continuing to shrink.
AMD's profit margin is 35%, down 1 percentage point on Q2
As for debts, AMD are asset positive, they have 50% more in assets than they do in total long term debt.
Its looking good for AMD at this point.
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A strong AMD is good news for everyone interested in PCs, lets hope things continue to improve.
Agreed, competition benefits the consumer. You can see the problem with a lack of competition with Intel, they have no reason to push the boundaries or price aggressively so you see expensive tech with little generation to generation improvements now.
I think that might be unfair when it comes to Haswell and power efficiency which Intel have been focused on for a while, they are certainly progressing - doesn't mean it has to be with more Ghz
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At least for graphic side of things, AMD seem to finally be able to deliver product that can actually compete against Nvidia high-end vs high-end (7950/7970 vs GTX670/GTX680 don't count, since I never believed the BS from Nvidia that those 256-bit GK104 are high-end parts).
Now if AMD could sort themself out on the CPU side as well...
I honestly hope AMD could give me a good reason to build a system based on their CPUs again...
Now if AMD could sort themself out on the CPU side as well...
I honestly hope AMD could give me a good reason to build a system based on their CPUs again...
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A strong AMD is good news for everyone interested in PCs, lets hope things continue to improve.
Agreed, consoles being dealt with, new GPU's 'almost' all rolled out, Kaveri and hopefully high end desktop CPU's will be next starting next year. AMD have definitely pulled themselves out of the fire. Look forward to seeing what Steamroller can do..
Console GPU's are virtually supplied at cost, there's hardly any profit in it, hell Sony/MS sell the things at a loss for ~3 years to try and grab market share. The reason ATi/Nvidia made console GPU's for the previous two gens was because it was good PR/publicity not because it made big money.
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With Intel jerking off in 2014 (As far as the vast majority of people are concerned) AMD could get some well needed improvement in that space.
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Bear in mind that cross platform support is not something Sony or MS want, they want you to play games on Their machines, not anyone elses
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Yeah the opportunity is their for AMD to recoup some ground, just depends if they can execute well. Like the idea if a decent 8 core Steamroller setup.
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Yeah, AMD can't execute, so 
I am glad to see AMD doing well, I would be interested to see their margins on consoles and GPU's. I can see the CPU's dragging profit away from AMD because in honesty, they are shoddy compared to Intel.
Nobody but nobody should want an Nvidia monopoly and the same for AMD, we need both to be fighting it out.
Nobody but nobody should want an Nvidia monopoly and the same for AMD, we need both to be fighting it out.
Sony and Microsoft have little say in this. Developers need crossplatform games to do well. Sony and Microsoft need their developers to do well.
AMD's CPU compute division bring far more bacon in than GPU
Not saying you are wrong but I do find that hard to swallow. Any more info please?
Cross platform games = games on more than one platform, it's not the same as cross platform support. cross platform API that works across the platforms so they can just code the game and it would run on all the consoles, no need to write a different version for each one.