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China to invest $19B into AMD - no buyout on the cards

SkeeterUK said:
Lol if china bought amd then nvidia users can say pff it has written on the pcb "made in china" so its crap.

:D
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Erm, pretty much all consumer electronics are made in China and/or Taiwan already.
AMD use TSMC and Globalfoundries to make their products so the manufacturing locations wouldn't change anyway.
 
:(made in china,nearly as bad as made in taiwan:eek:

don't matter where its made its about the money being available now to amd
 
SkeeterUK said:
I thought most good stuff was from Japan and just cheap stuff from China with regards to high end electronics.
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In terms of design, there are lots of Chinese brands cropping up, however even most big Japanese manufacturers have manufactruing bases in China, only a small percentage of what you would think of as "Japanese" products are actually made in Japan.
As mentioned above, Amd and Nvidia GPU's are all made by TSMC in Taiwan anyway.
I would imagine most of the board makers are based there as well as none of them have headquarters in Japan.
 
andybird123 said:
In terms of design, there are lots of Chinese brands cropping up, however even most big Japanese manufacturers have manufactruing bases in China, only a small percentage of what you would think of as "Japanese" products are actually made in Japan.
As mentioned above, Amd and Nvidia GPU's are all made by TSMC in Taiwan anyway.
I would imagine most of the board makers are based there as well as none of them have headquarters in Japan.
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Maybe a lot of people dont know big names like MSI/Gigabyte/ASUS are all based in Taiwan, even the founder of Nvidia, Jen-Hsun Huang, and the current AMD CEO, Lisa Su, both come from Taiwan as well. All these big brands have factories in Taiwan and mainland China.

Japan was very successful in all these high end tech, but not now anymore...The Chinese and Koreans have taken over it already.
 
If the rumours of this investment are true hopefully it mean we can finally get some decent competition into the market. The whole GPU scene feels extremely stagnant imo and has done so for a few years.
 
The Running Man said:
Intel have really cleaned up the desktop market. Laptops too. ATi losing to nvidia. Without massive investment what chance does AMD have in the long run apart from a perennial runner up, until maybe Intel get too complacent. But would it already be too late ?
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Playing runner up isnt losing tho.

As long as they are making profits win win.
 
Makes me wonder how much money ATI Graphics division gets from AMD for research and development, I wonder if they would be better off being a separate company again...
 
Even if they get a massive cash injection, it will be quite a while before any tangible effect is seen through better engineering.

They might receive the cash with some conditions attached to further the investors agenda.

At any rate AMD needs a home run, and I hope this helps them achieve it. Who still remembers when AMD had the fastest processors? :D
 
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