AMD Phenom update

[Tjalfe]

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/11/16/arabs-parts-amd

[Dr Mordrid]

The Inquirer's been rounding their numbers again

Abu Dhabi's government investment firm, Mubadala Development, invested $622 million USD to acquire an 8.1 percent of AMD on Friday. AMD says it'll go into R&D etc. but mostly on Fusion.


ComputerWorld article....

[Evildead666]

Oops. didn't see page 2

[Tjalfe]

can't really fault the inquirer, as they quoted here:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21827274/

[dZeus]

The Inquirer's been rounding their numbers again

Abu Dhabi's government investment firm, Mubadala Development, invested $622 million USD to acquire an 8.1 percent of AMD on Friday. AMD says it'll go into R&D etc. but mostly on Fusion.


ComputerWorld article....

what's 622 million USD when AMD is able to leak money like a seive leaks water?

As I said before, buying ATI was the best thing that could happen to ATI shareholders, but the worst thing that could happen to either ATI or AMD as a business (spending way more money that ATI was worth and than AMD could afford), and bad news for AMD shareholders.

[Nowhere]

In worst case AMD simply will be producing slower (but more than enough IMHO) & cheaper solutions along more lucrative Intel market...because, well, doesn't Intel need AMD?
I wouldn't be surprised if they'd save them if things would be really bad...

[ALBPM]

The Inquirer's been rounding their numbers again

Abu Dhabi's government investment firm, Mubadala Development, invested $622 million USD to acquire an 8.1 percent of AMD on Friday. AMD says it'll go into R&D etc. but mostly on Fusion.


ComputerWorld article....

What a joke....ROFLMAO!!!!!!
They'll piss that away quickly in R&D. What AMD needs.... is to learn how to manufacture. That's where they fall flat on their face. So, now they have become a Charity....


"We will crush them, see them driven before us, and hear the lamentations of the AMD Fanboyz."

Darth_Mahl

[Jammrock]

What a joke....ROFLMAO!!!!!!
They'll piss that away quickly in R&D. What AMD needs.... is to learn how to manufacture. That's where they fall flat on their face. So, now they have become a Charity....


"We will crush them, see them driven before us, and hear the lamentations of the AMD Fanboyz."

Darth_Mahl

Agreed. AMD's R&D is fine. They produce good stuff, they just can pump it out with good yields fast enough. When the ATi/AMD HD 2000-series was supposed to come out it would have been better than nvidia's offering, but they couldn't get the manufacturing right so the product got pushed back.

Same thing with the Phenom. If AMD had 45 nm process and could have put it out in the summer at near 3.0 GHz, Intel would have been the one trying to catch up.

Intel just has so much production capacity it's insane.

[Wombat]

In worst case AMD simply will be producing slower (but more than enough IMHO) & cheaper solutions along more lucrative Intel market...because, well, doesn't Intel need AMD?
I wouldn't be surprised if they'd save them if things would be really bad...

Except that right now it seems that they're producing slower chips than Intel, but at the same value (performance/dollar). People used to buy AMD because they got more bang for the buck. Now it seems there at less bang, less buck.

[The PIT]

They'll have to go back to cloning. Cheap AMD Core Duo with twice the cache of the Intel offering.
As for ATI side of things poor drivers are also hindering progress. AGP owners seemed to have been abandoned by the looks of it.

[Nowhere]

I believe AMD did just that up to their 486 equivalents, but as complexity of chips became bigger, times needed for reverse engineering grow. Today it would have to be so absurdly long that AMD is much better with their own designs.

And c'mon...they aren't that much worse. Would you ever notice the difference?

BTW, as for AGP...it seems that ATI division doesn't even support current AGP DirectX10 Radeons in their latest drivers (you need to use drivers provided by manufacturer of the card); their certainly still in their old game...