AMD isn't going anywhere, we will still have Radeon etc, they are just trying to sell parts of the company to venture into other fields. Take Mobile for example from the article. IF they find a buyer for that division of AMD, if its a worthy company they can turn it into something big. That is what this is about, not AMD going under all together. People always get the wrong idea and twist it around into something else. *EDIT*

AMD have denied it. http://www.dailytech.com/Reuters+Claims+AMD+is+Pursuing+a+Sale+AMD+Denies+it/article29192.htm ps why doesnt the forums search function work properly? I searched for threads including AMD in the title and this isnt included.

This is good to know, thanks!

One can deny it to prevent investors selling prematurely even if its true welcome to the world of something.. Or get a false jump of stock value to have it just tank anyways when they find out there is no sale...

Amd will not stop producing processors or GPU's. Just think back to the Bill gates and Steve Jobs situation back in the late 90's early 2000. Where Microsoft had to bail out Apple and donate them a sill amount of money so competition would still be there for Microsoft. The European Monopoly commission would hurt Intel and Nvidia if they were seen to have NO competition and to be dominating the market. Intel will play there part in bailing them out if need be. And I also See Intel having there eye on the 64bit CPU line so again bailing them out would be of serious interest.

Supply and demand. First rule. If there is no competition, why should you lower your prices. Prices are only lowered to either shift stock to make way for new stock or to compete with competitors. I do agree that from a customer moral sense, they would be shooting themselves in the foot potentially as customers may rebel, but rebel to what? No computer upgrades? The scenario should AMD leave the CPU market is that there is no alternate to Intel for the average consumer.

Competition has nothing to do with supply and demand. If demand is not high enough to justify an increase of price, then the price won't increase. Just because AMD pulls out doesn't mean the demand for Intel's CPUs will increase. There will be more of a market for Intel's CPUs but the demand for overpriced CPUs will not suddenly go up. The people who buy AMD CPUs are looking for price:performance, they won't be like "well derp imma spend a bajillion dollars on Intel because it's my only choice now". Intel's supply of mid-high range CPUs won't really be affected at all by this news. I'm sure they have plenty of extras in stock, plus most of the demand probably goes to their lower-tier processors.

Competition has nothing to do with supply and demand. If demand is not high enough to justify an increase of price, then the price won't increase. Just because AMD pulls out doesn't mean the demand for Intel's CPUs will increase. There will be more of a market for Intel's CPUs but the demand for overpriced CPUs will not suddenly go up. The people who buy AMD CPUs are looking for price:performance, they won't be like "well derp imma spend a bajillion dollars on Intel because it's my only choice now". Intel's supply of mid-high range CPUs won't really be affected at all by this news. I'm sure they have plenty of extras in stock, plus most of the demand probably goes to their lower-tier processors.

no, but intel could set i3 prices just at same price and increase mid-high segments 🙂. or even increase i3's a little too.

When Bulldozer was released we all saw this coming.

Yes, a processor that targets only a tiny fragment of the PC market would be AMD's downfall. The retard spouted when it comes to AMD is strong today it appears.