AMD 2015 First Quarter Results
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SHOCKTRUPPEN
Come on AMD!?
I'm no business genius, but with Intel's business model working at a fever pitch why isn't AMD stealing, ahem, borrowing some if not all their business model? My processors aren't selling wonder why? Hmmm, let me see how intel does it. Oh I see they put out new choices often, and provide what the public wants...speed. Even if they don't really need it. But they will buy it because everyone wants a faster "car" than the guy sitting next to him! Dump my old processors at rock bottom prices, write off the business "loss" and release some screamers and voila, I'm making money! I know I am over simplifying this but basically this is what they need to do to survive no? The days of putting out a "decent" chip is waay over. Everyone IS LOOKING FOR THE NEW Ferrari chip so they can brag to their buddies about it.
One last thought, why would you as a video card maker, produce processors with video on board? You just became your own competition! And if you insist on putting that product out wouldn't you have the foresight to make sure those were chips that were screamers? Instead they are mediocre and confusing processors to choose from. Fire who made that decision he is obviously the owners son!
AMD if it's broke FIX IT!!!!!!:banana:
Rich_Guy
They'll be losing billions on gaming cards, as will cost a fortune in design etc..., but with their market share that low, they've only got about 5 people who buy em. :P
sykozis
It takes YEARS to develop a processor. The smaller your R&D budget, the more years it takes. Being as far in debt as AMD is, they can't afford to produce nearly as many engineering samples as Intel can per design. Intel spends more per year on R&D than AMD is worth. That buys a massive advantage.
AMD puts GPU's in "entry-level" and budget processors. Markets that typically don't buy dedicated GPUs anyway.
If AMD were to "write-off" all of their current processors as a loss....they'd be bankrupt. They'd be writing off billions of dollars in products. In their current position, they don't have a choice but to sell what they currently have on the market. It will be mid-2016 before they can replace their current line of FX branded processors.
maize1951
Did AMD hire people from the government to run the company? After all the government always operates at an loss.
sykozis
Sadly enough, no. They just keep bringing in people that have no idea how to bring the company back to profitability.
zer0_c0ol
samsung pls for the love of god, buy amd
---TK---
Cant say I`m surpised by this.
sykozis
Yes, because we really only need 1 processor choice.....
ZenithSal
I'm one of their lost sales. I stuck to AMD since the Radeon 3850, then 4850 then 6850 then 270X. Last week my 270X died and I decided to get a new GPU, I really wanted a new AMD but I could not find a single reason to justify it and I can't stay without a GPU until AMD decides to turn 3XX into something more than just rumors.
As of now NVIDIA offer the same prices (AMD is expensive here for some reason), better performance, less power consumption and support for Direct3D 12. So I went with a GTX 970.
kosh_neranek
sad news,they really need a winner with 3 series.lets hope they bring serious competition to Nvidia
DarkKnightDude
Man, their last hope is on the 300 and their Apus/Zen.
I might get a 300 card myself, been very unhappy with Kepler lately.
k3vst3r
Even with console contracts it's not helping them much.
sykozis
When your products aren't really selling, it's hard to make money. ESpecially when you're still producing those same products.
You can only sell the same products for so long before every customer is covered. The excessive delay between product launches is killing AMD.
They need to get on a release schedule where every 3-4 months they have a new product launching. They should be releasing new CPU's yearly, new GPU's yearly and new APU's yearly. There should not be 2-3 years between CPU launches.
gx-x
They are generating loss because of bad R&D, amongst other things. Rebrading 3 year old stuff is showing. To make things worse - that stuff wasn't that good 3 years ago to begin with. Let's hope that they will offer something new to the market, soon!
Daftshadow
the AMD brand is still worth a lot. i wouldn't be surprised if they were bailed out by acquisition. who knows, may be they need to clean house and bring in some people who actually know how to run a successful and profitable business.
Fender178
That would be bad on so many levels because 1 AMD would loose the x86 license since it is non transferable. and 2 we will have only 1 processor company to sell CPUs which is not a good idea.
tsunami231
As much as I hate AMD and never liked there CPU even I have to admit this bad things and AMD is pale shadow of what they once were.
Clouseau
If hardware continues to underwhelm, can see them exiting the hardware side and become a think tank. They have been good at pushing forward on theory. They'll find a niche just like Big Blue. That's IBM if anyone did not know.
vbetts
Moderator
IBM still is in the super computer business, and business hardware/management.
sykozis
They were in "cloud computing" as well. I guess that would probably fall under business hardware/management now though.
