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AMD throws in the towel
So it seems rumours are out about AMD giving up the market to Intel.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-Not-Competing-With-Intel-Anymore-Goes-Mobile-237103.shtml
Bad news for everybody.
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Really bad news. Hope they reconsider.
Yep, looks like we'll see intel charge even more money for their chips, since AMD did kind of keep it in check.
However AMD still has the ATI side of things and the business seems robust.
Let's hope AMD comes up with a chip for mobile that is innovated.
Nice, Intel really is the better choice for CPUs.
And on this note, I would like to see them give into nVidia concerning GPUs as well. At least IMHFO, every PC game that has released for as long as I can recall has had severe issues when attempting to run them using AMD/ATI GPUs, and I'm not discounting nVidia entirely either, but at least their issues are far less and fixed much faster.
using intel for about 5 years now and these are much more stable then my previous AMD machines.
just saying.
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Way to jump the gun.
First off it's softpedia... the single worst source of news in the technology sector there is. Even if you just look at their articles over the past few months most of them have been either mostly wrong or blatant falsehoods.
Secondly, AMD are not throwing in the towel for the desktop market, they are simply putting more resources into the mobile sector. Softpedia conveniently interpreted the actual news in a manner which would cause controversy and is complete and utter nonsense. The actual quote they twisted and based their whole article on was :
LOLz, tell that to the hundreads of thousands of people with bad solderball in there bad nvidia gpus in the 8xxx series, at least in the mobile sector. I helped quite a few people realize there nvidia gpu was fried cause of that specific problem. AMD/ATI are known for there longevity and dont fry out, at least they havent had any cases of mass GPU's frying out like nvidia.
To say AMD/ATI is a bad gpu is plan silly and naive. I dont like to argue about it, theres millions of threads on the internet discusing the same damn thing but jesus.
I own both and I perfer ATI/AMD, they cost way less for one.
Actually I go as far to let people know, Nvidia is ruining the mobile market with there terrible pricing, at least for laptops. It makes people that can use and benefit from a laptop/notebook from being able to frigin purchase one in the first place. Most of nvidia mobile gpus can cost upwards of 25-60% more then there counterpart, which is embarising and a painfull reminder of how people can screw others over. It makes explaining to countless people time in and time over why laptops arnt that expensive and can really find a good deal without giving up there life saving for a nvidia product frustrating.
Any way, I dont mean to be harsh, I do this every day so I have my own opinion on it.
I really hope they dont fold it in. I only ever once went AMD as a cpu choice but I always calculate it as an option. As for ATI/AMD vs Nvidia, I've went Nvidia 2 times back in the day Pre 2005, and I was not impressed the way my screen colors didn't look as vibrant.
And from an econmic point of view ATI seems to always be the best bang for your buck. I almost always see a Crossfire setup as the fastest benchmark so /shrug.
AMD also has that chart if anyone thinks it makes a difference:
http://images.anandtech.com/doci/4955/zambezi-slide-10.jpg
"LOL"
old and false. this was spun out of control.
http://www.extremetech.com/mobile/107133-amd-to-attempt-self-resurrection-but-not-with-arm
Yesterday, Mercury News ran a report on AMD’s struggles to reinvent itself and included this quote from company spokesperson Mike Silverman: “We’re at an inflection point. We will all need to let go of the old ‘AMD versus Intel’ mind-set, because it won’t be about that anymore.”
This single quote has been spun by other publications into speculation that AMD intends to launch ARM CPUs either alongside its x86 chips or as wholesale replacements for them. When we contacted Silverman, he confirmed that the original statement has been taken somewhat out of context and provided additional clarification. “AMD is a leader in x86 microprocessor design, and we remain committed to the x86 market,” Silverman told us. “Our strategy is to accelerate our growth by taking advantage of our design capabilities to deliver a breadth of products that best align with broader industry shifts toward low power, emerging markets and the cloud.”
I hope not. I only use Intel CPUs but without AMD on the other side of the fence there will be no reason for Intel to push the envelope or keep prices fair.
That article took what AMD said out of context. i wouldn't believe what was is being said in that article.
Either you don't understand how competition works or you just didn't think before you wrote this.
The reason Intel CPUs are currently so good is because of competition. Without any serious competition, they will stop developing them and you will be buying the same architecture next year, only with higher price.
Competition, even bad one, is ALWAYS good for the consumer. Unless you own a hefty portfolio of Intel stock you'd better check your attitude.
good news.
AMD were always low quality, cheap, buggy and prone to issues chipsets. Loads of players invested their hard won cash in AMD only to find out their systems ruinned after a couple years or after some overheating issue.
AMD chips were designed on the limit, while Intel are not.
Another issue is the german economy finally crashing into a wall created by them. That is good news to everyone in Europe.
A lack of competition is not good. Even if the competitor is inferior, they are competing in price, if not performance. Monopolies never work out well for the consumer in the long run.
I can not remember winning or losing a single debate on the internet.
I guess it's all dependent on what you use it for...
I have owned both and have been strictly AMD for the last decade. I don't seriously OC and don't plan to. As such, one is as good as the other to me.
AMD's entry into the market lowered Intel's pricing which was exorbitant, imo, a decade ago.
My personal outlook is that AMD should just continue doing what they are doing in the x86 market. The average builder doesn't hold their system longer than 2-5 years with any modifications. Competing with Intel directly was never a route I would have considered for them.
Intel has always held sway for systems designed to mutli-task programs used to process information. AMD has always held sway for systems designed to be excel at rendering graphics. Apples does both great, but may require a repair trip if it stops working.
All of them can do these things of course, I have always just looked at who appeared to excel in those categories.
I've never really viewed them as the same animal.
It's simplistic, but simple tends to work best.
I used to be a Great Supporter of ATI and AMD but i forseen this coming and have joined Intel and Nvidia they are true power in PC gaming Honestly was a great decision=]
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What nonsense. AMD isn't abandoning any of their current markets. Rather, they're moving into markets not presently dominated by Intel, such as memory and tablets. It's kind of like how when Nvidia started working on Tegra (for tablets and cel phones), you could have said that they didn't want it to just be Nvidia vs AMD anymore.
It's more fun to say "The sky is falling"
Been using AMD for 15 years and never looked back.
A great quote from years ago:
"Anyone who knows anything about computers uses AMD everyone else uses Intel."
Maybe you overestimate the influx of AMD onto the german economy?
If AMD dies or lives is absolutely no matter for the economy - it matters for the customers bcs the prices will rise while the technical development will halt.
AMD brought the 64 Bit to the PC - it was not Intel!
AMD brought the integrated memory controller to the PCs - it was not Intel!
AMD brought Multicores to the PC - it was not Intel!
Intel is the static giant that only moves if the whip AMD tortures it hard enough to move eventually.
It will be lead to a market failure of titanic dimensions if AMD stops to compete in the x86 business.
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This. I've been building with AMD since 1999, and that's not going to change.
My systems kick ass, never have any stability problems, and cost far less than an Intel rig to boot.
Looking forward to an Android phone with an AMD processor though!
In most cases the ATI Hardware is actually superior particularly for the price, the reasons I wont buy ATi anymore is because of their garbage driver support. In the 9800 Pro days their drivers were good, by the time I got my x850xt it was a joke, some games required a full rollback to a previous driver version while others needed the latest driver or even a beta driver to work.
It was a total mess and this trend is still around now...
It will suck if AMD do infact one day drop right out of the CPU running..... they are the only ones keeping intel prices honest.
It was a total mess and this trend is still around now...
Really?
Yeah, I think that about sums up my reaction to that post too, Ridelynn
I was afraid of that. And this is where the Government comes into play hopefuly with regulations and fair business practices. If intel wants to be obscene and charge a lot more for their processors they will have a hard time doing so if they are regulated, this can not be a monopoly division that beats the crap out of consumers because they are the only dog in town. This will not fair well for them, we remember the Microsoft debacle. Let us hope Intel keeps the trust with the consumers and doesn't start shady sales practices. Nothing like going back to the mid late 90's and paying $1800 per processor.
Might I add intel had 80% of the cpu market sales in 2011............AMD needed there new cpu's to do well and basically they couldn't even do that with a large leap forward. I remember them being king of the hill 939 era.