The AMD Execution Thread [2007 - 2017]

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As uncompetitive as AMD is on the desktop and mediocre as it is in server versus Intel, is it really any better off versus a much wider range of competitors in mobile in either CPU or graphics tech?

Depending on what AMD decides to do, this may allow it to persist in some form, but it increasingly sounds like the days where it will be an interesting topic of discussion in this forum are on the wane.
 
Alexko said:
Sounds like a lot of noise for one vague quote from some spokesman.
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Actually, the subsequent quote from AMD is far more concerning:
AMD is a leader in x86 microprocessor design, and we remain committed to the x86 market. 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
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I'm going to plagiarize a reply that I saw to that second quote: Nothing makes me more suspicious as when someone from corporate America uses the word ‘’commitment.’ HP was committed to WebOS; Netflix was committed to Qwikster.. I’m Committed to you, baby… until tomorrow morning.

Yikes...
 
I miss ATI. :( The graphics division is the only thing keeping AMD relevant right now outside the server market (IMO). I just hope AMD doesn't drag it down to the grave.

Regards,
SB
 
Mize said:
Ah...remember back in the last decade when ATI swallowed AMD but took their name?
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And their crushing debt, and their massive liabilities, and juggernaut of a competitor?
By that logic, the old AMD got the sweet merciful embrace of death to end its misery.
Who won on that deal? ;)
 
Odd that while they make notebooks for multiple OEM vendors, only one OEM vendor was affected.

It makes me wonder if that one OEM vendor requested some odd cooling or manufacturing condition that caused the problems or if Quanta decided to do some questionable cost cutting for that one OEM.

Also, I wish the article would have mentioned which chips were problem chips.

Unlike the Nvidia bumpgate situation, only one vendor was affected (at least thus far) which suggests assembly or notebook manufacturing problems rather than problems with the chip itself.

Regards,
SB
 
Silent_Buddha said:
It makes me wonder if that one OEM vendor requested some odd cooling or manufacturing condition that caused the problems or if Quanta decided to do some questionable cost cutting for that one OEM.

Unlike the Nvidia bumpgate situation, only one vendor was affected (at least thus far) which suggests assembly or notebook manufacturing problems rather than problems with the chip itself.
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That's pretty much what AMD are saying. From the article:

“AMD disputes the allegations in Quanta’s complaint and believes they are without merit,” Sunnyvale, California-based AMD’s spokesman, Michael Silverman, said in an e-mailed message.


“AMD is aware of no other customer reports of the alleged issues with the AMD chip that Quanta used, which AMD no longer sells,” Silverman said.



“In fact, Quanta has itself acknowledged to AMD that it used the identical chip in large volumes in a different computer platform that it manufactured for NEC without such issues.”
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So one line of one product from a single OEM. Looks like a bad cooling solution on one design.
 
All that over a chip a half decade old? That failed in one product line for one OEM. It must be noted that even the OEM doesn't find fault with AMD/ATI. Desperate money grab if I've ever seen one.

Regards,
SB
 
On a very different topic, CES is here but no talk/demos/launches of AMD Trinity based systems? Wasn't Trinity supposed to launch "very early" in 2012?
 
"Doing second generation DirectX11 is harder!"

I can't tell how fast those videos are encoding, but it's nice that we can multitask to that degree. Still, that quote is just silly...
 
Albuquerque said:
"Doing second generation DirectX11 is harder!"
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It's a reference to NVIDIA's "Designing GPU's is f##### hard" when they needed another spin on GF100.

I asked two people at NVIDIA why Fermi is late; NVIDIA's VP of Product Marketing, Ujesh Desai and NVIDIA's VP of GPU Engineering, Jonah Alben. Ujesh responded: because designing GPUs this big is "fucking hard".
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http://www.anandtech.com/show/2849
 
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