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Dark days, AMD share price at lowest ever.

KillBoY_UK said:
a lot of people say they need to be brought sharpish with resent speculation being Samsung or Qualcomm. IMO both of them would gain very little without ploughing 10's or 100's of billions back into AMD so that they "maybe" be competitive against Intel or Nvidia in there respective markets.
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Erm... AMD's total revenue is only 5.5 billion dollars, with NVIDIAs being 4.3 and intels being 55 billion.

There is no way in hell any buyer would need to put anywhere near 10s or 100s of billions into AMD lmfao. Maybe 10 at a huge push.

I can't see much reason for anyone to buy AMD really. Unless someone wants to compete with intel and nvidia anyway. I doubt any company would willing buy a company that is competing against two market giants just for the sake of their IP. Because if they cared about that IP that much, they would already be competing themselves.
 
Being number 2 in so many markets is not a good place to be if you can't make a profit from it.

It's difficult to see a way back to profit for them without some radical steps being taken and products coming to market.

Intel and nvidia are both simply ahead of them.

Volume from gaming consoles is good, it helps to reduce overall costs and keep operations moving bringing cash in even if it is low margin currently. Maybe by 0.14nm they can increase the profitability somewhat.
 
The last thing I want to see is AMD collapse. I have bought 2 AMD GPUs in the last couple of months and given them both fair and honest reviews. The Fury X is a good card but missing that special something to make it a great card. There was people wanting to buy but no stock to buy from anywhere, so that is a failure and if they are anything like me, they would have bought something else and the 980Ti would have been that something else.

I can't really comment on the CPU side of things, as I have not used one in a long time but that doesn't seen to be doing them any favours and when an AMD employee is running an Intel CPU in every bench he posts, that kinda tells me that they are not up to the task (not a dig).

Anyways, I have done my bit to help AMD out (still blocked by Roy on twitter though) :D
 
Meladath said:
Erm... AMD's total revenue is only 5.5 billion dollars, with NVIDIAs being 4.3 and intels being 55 billion.

There is no way in hell any buyer would need to put anywhere near 10s or 100s of billions into AMD lmfao. Maybe 10 at a huge push.

I can't see much reason for anyone to buy AMD really. Unless someone wants to compete with intel and nvidia anyway. I doubt any company would willing buy a company that is competing against two market giants just for the sake of their IP. Because if they cared about that IP that much, they would already be competing themselves.
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I agree, i don't see anyone anywhere really wanting to take on intel or Nvidia. There is just nothing in it for them.
 
Gregster said:
The last thing I want to see is AMD collapse. I have bought 2 AMD GPUs in the last couple of months and given them both fair and honest reviews. The Fury X is a good card but missing that special something to make it a great card. There was people wanting to buy but no stock to buy from anywhere, so that is a failure and if they are anything like me, they would have bought something else and the 980Ti would have been that something else.

I can't really comment on the CPU side of things, as I have not used one in a long time but that doesn't seen to be doing them any favours and when an AMD employee is running an Intel CPU in every bench he posts, that kinda tells me that they are not up to the task (not a dig).

Anyways, I have done my bit to help AMD out (still blocked by Roy on twitter though) :D
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Not just in the benches. Didn't the small cube pc they announce have intel inside as well?
 
The best part is its bloody obvious that intel are better at the high end than AMD. So AMD do the smart thing and use intel's chip instead of their own. Then people slate AMD for using intel's stuff because thats "accepting that their stuff is ****"

Damned if they do and damned if they don't. That's AMD's main problem in both markets imo...
 
Whilst their cpu's do fall behind intels offerings. I personally don't see an awful lot wrong with their gpu's. They've always represented great value for money with performance to match.
 
Meladath said:
The best part is its bloody obvious that intel are better at the high end than AMD. So AMD do the smart thing and use intel's chip instead of their own. Then people slate AMD for using intel's stuff because thats "accepting that their stuff is ****"

Damned if they do and damned if they don't. That's AMD's main problem in both markets imo...
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Not really, AMD make CPUs, so they should be making competitive CPUs. It is better for our pockets to have at least two companies vying for our spondoolies. I really really want AMD to come back to the forefront but they just seem to keep tripping over at every hurdle.
 
setter said:
Whilst their cpu's do fall behind intels offerings. I personally don't see an awful lot wrong with their gpu's. They've always represented great value for money with performance to match.
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The 8 Cores do a lot better under DX12, out performing i5's, with engines well optimised for Physics the 8 cores do as well as the Ivy i7's in DX11, both outperforming the i5's.

They are not great and i have had plenty to say about it, but they are also not all that bad, at the price point they are actually very competitive to Intel's offerings.

The problem with most things at the moment is under DX11 AMD CPU's can only utilise 12.5% of their total power, that changes with DX12
 
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