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AMD declining R&D budget....

Gregster said:
Well you are wrong there, as everything AMD do from a financial point has to be accounted for and this information is freely available on the internetz.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/amd-reports-2014-fourth-quarter-211500020.html

Quite a detailed report there of losses and gains.

Another here

http://ir.amd.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=74093&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=2008997

So you can see what is making and what is losing quite easily.
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You do realise the second link quite clearly states the £235mil operating profit for the year? Only when you factor in the company writing down the value of to a tune of £300million(which simply aren't real losses... unless you want to sell the company, but can rise by the same amount in two years without actually bringing in £300million more in cash).

If you can read, those numbers very clearly state that AMD made a cash profit for the year. Up from 103million the year before... increased profits in a declining PC market, with few new products, that is exceptionally strong performance for what is mostly a waiting phase for 2016 products to bring the pc sales back up.

Don't let facts bother you though, focus on the perceived losses without any real value. AMD is paying off it's interest, increasing profits(2013 results are up MASSIVELY on 2012), reducing overheads, replacing the non performing engineers in the company, has recruited some of the industries best and most respected talent.

Increasing profits over the past 2 years, increased diversification, increased engineering talent(quality over quantity EVERY time), increased console domination(from the 360 and Wii to the Wii U, XO and PS4), and all while dumping a failing architecture and building towards a very strong 2016/2017.
 
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drunkenmaster said:
You do realise the second link quite clearly states the £235mil operating profit for the year? Only when you factor in the company writing down the value of to a tune of £300million(which simply aren't real losses... unless you want to sell the company, but can rise by the same amount in two years without actually bringing in £300million more in cash).

If you can read, those numbers very clearly state that AMD made a cash profit for the year. Up from 103million the year before... increased profits in a declining PC market, with few new products, that is exceptionally strong performance for what is mostly a waiting phase for 2016 products to bring the pc sales back up.

Don't let facts bother you though, focus on the perceived losses without any real value. AMD is paying off it's interest, increasing profits(2013 results are up MASSIVELY on 2012), reducing overheads, replacing the non performing engineers in the company, has recruited some of the industries best and most respected talent.

Increasing profits over the past 2 years, increased diversification, increased engineering talent(quality over quantity EVERY time), increased console domination(from the 360 and Wii to the Wii U, XO and PS4), and all while dumping a failing architecture and building towards a very strong 2016/2017.
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One would have thought Bulldozer could have killed them. Quite funny they're still selling the things now.

You're wasting your time. The sooner AMD die the happier Greg will be.
 
AMD's Semi-Custom business is doing well, even their Desktop CPU's are turning a profit.

If its just that ^^^ AMD are a healthy profitable business.

So whats going wrong.
For one its debt repayments. But thats not the main problem

What's hemorrhaging AMD money at the moment is Discrete GPU's.

The staffing, R&D costs and the low margins on the end product, even selling them at times at a loss i think is the main thing thats eating up their profits from other sectors and then some more.

So, unless something drastic happens, and soon, a small but very loud number of people will be jumping up and down with joy.

AMD have no more money to hemorrhage, so their Graphics division must become profitable.
If not they will have two choices.

1, Shutdown the discrete Graphics division, downsize and concentrate purely on Semi-Custom and IP

2, Go on and allow the Graphics division to bankrupt them.

They may have to face that choice sooner than a lot of people think.

For years i have been arguing against idiots saying "AMD will be dead within the year"

Now its getting to crunch time.
 
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