Is AMD Dead Yet?

TheProcess writes "Back in February 2003, IBM predicted that AMD would be dead in 5 years (original article here), with IBM and Intel the only remaining players in the chip market. Well, 5 years have passed and AMD is still alive. However, its finances and stock price have taken a serious beating over the last year. AMD was once a darling in this community — the plucky, up-and-coming challenger to the Intel behemoth. Will AMD still be here in 5 years? Can they pose a credible competitive threat to Intel's dominance? Do they still have superior but unappreciated technology? Or are they finally old hat? Can they really recover?"

Don't think so.

[freedom_india]

Although AMD is not that advertised as Intel is, it continues to remain a solid product company.
For instance the AMD Athlon X2 64-bit dual core chip i use, is quieter, less power hungry and more powerful than its intel-equivalent.

I have always thought of Intel chips as a short, well-built sprinter, whose ting pegs can carry him over a short distance quickly but in the longer haul (marathon), it can keep up only by downing copious amounts of glucose fluids and sweats a lot.

AMD is a picture of a tall (6.5 feet), lean, kenyan man, whose stamina, endurance make him take the 15 mile marathon easily without breaking a sweat.

AMD would be either bought over by IBM or even by Microsoft.

Re:AMD has too many assets to just disappear

[Tablizer]

It's a bit hard to imagine that both CPU, GPU and Flash RAM will all tank at once.

It would be called a "core dump" :-)
     

Re:Why did they buy ATI?

[Anonymous Coward]

That's because their plan is to merge the CPU and GPU into one unit. This is an advance that even Intel does not appear to be planning

Is it? Don't gamerz upgrade their $1500 gaphics card every three months or so?

Re:Why did they buy ATI?

[Beliskner]

Is it? Don't gamerz upgrade their $1500 gaphics card every three months or so?

Exactly! Imagine how much money AMD would make if everyone upgraded their CPU every three months!!! It's their master plan!

Re:Slow/quick end....

[rucs_hack]

Excellent points sir.
I should like to take this opportunity to introduce you to a friend of mine. ... ...
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Re:Don't think so.

[Anonymous Coward]

I find your post vaguely homo-erotic and a bit disturbing. Please don't do that again.

"Is AMD Dead Yet?"

[ettlz]

Whoa, one thing at a time — let's see off BSD first, OK?

Re:AMD did it to themselves

[Imsdal]

How about Zilog or Motorola? Last time I checked, they had some great procesors.

For full disclosure, I should add that last I checked was twenty years ago.

Re:Don't think so.

[glwtta]

full metal gates

Some kind of Microsoft-themed manga?

AMD, next sunday on Fox !!!

[BlueTrin]

Will AMD still be here in 5 years?
Can they pose a credible competitive threat to Intel's dominance?
Do they still have superior but unappreciated technology?
Or are they finally old hat? Can they really recover?

You will get the answers to these question and plenty of others in the next episode, released starting from 2013.

what AMD really needs to do...

[Anonymous Coward]

...is to create the 128 bit architecture upgrade for their processors.

In other news, IBM reported dead

[obstalesgone]

Ironic that IBM isn't manufacturing popular CPU's anymore.

Re:Apparently not

[neumayr]

And that's a bad thing?
I click those malicious links out of curiosity, I guess many people do. It's not like increased traffic to one of those sites are doing anyone any good, or is it?

Anyways, I enjoy looking at what 'malicious' javascript games those kids come up with.

Re:Just ordered an AMD 4800+ yesterday

[ichigo 2.0]

AMD's market share must have shrunk a bit from the old days if your purchase has such an effect. Unless you meant to say that you just ordered one million AMD 4800+ processors.

Re:7.62...

[glwtta]

Well, if this was the Manly Things Forum dedicated to beer, monster trucks, and movies prominently featuring drill sergeants, I would've gone with the other thing.

Re:Just ordered an AMD 4800+ yesterday

[Jesus_666]

Actually, he did. Those new nForce mainboards really are the best if you need 2000000 to 4000000 cores.

Re:For me, this story crossed a line. ATI excellen

[Dragonslicer]

I am just concerned that this story is worded in a way that seems sleazy and possibly fraudulent to me.

You must be new here.

Re:Paernt is the liar

[hedwards]

You admit to using Windows? Good for you!

Indeed, admitting one has a problem is the first step to recovery.

Re:Paernt is the liar

[Vexorian]

Warning: Link leads to a malicious website.

Sorry, I couldn't resist.