blackkstar
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I don't think I've seen this mentioned earlier.
IIRC Read was talking about shifting focus from products that don't sell well to products that do sell well.
From what I've gathered on Google, AMD's server market share is roughly 5%, their total market share across desktop and laptop is about 16%, and their market share (for CPUs only) on Steam Hardware Survey is around 27%.
AMD's strongest field for selling CPUs is PC gamers. They've recently took to the whole Gaming Evolved thing pretty hard, and they've even gone as far as to try and release a "new" CPU targeted towards the high end gamers.
My point is that traditionally we've seen AMD trickle down CPU dies from server to desktop. However looking at how things have been going, it nearly make more sense for AMD to focus on desktop gaming CPUs over server. It also would have good synergy with AMD"s design wins in the consoles.
Yeah, AMD released the server road map and there is no 8 core steamroller, but AMD may be doing what Intel is doing next year with Haswell. Releasing a new chip on a platform their targeting and just rehashing existing products to fill in new roles where they don't care.
The only difference is that Intel doesn't seem to care about desktop and AMD has the chance to focus on desktop, it is where they're strongest with CPUs right now according to market share.
Just throwing this all out here.
IIRC Read was talking about shifting focus from products that don't sell well to products that do sell well.
From what I've gathered on Google, AMD's server market share is roughly 5%, their total market share across desktop and laptop is about 16%, and their market share (for CPUs only) on Steam Hardware Survey is around 27%.
AMD's strongest field for selling CPUs is PC gamers. They've recently took to the whole Gaming Evolved thing pretty hard, and they've even gone as far as to try and release a "new" CPU targeted towards the high end gamers.
My point is that traditionally we've seen AMD trickle down CPU dies from server to desktop. However looking at how things have been going, it nearly make more sense for AMD to focus on desktop gaming CPUs over server. It also would have good synergy with AMD"s design wins in the consoles.
Yeah, AMD released the server road map and there is no 8 core steamroller, but AMD may be doing what Intel is doing next year with Haswell. Releasing a new chip on a platform their targeting and just rehashing existing products to fill in new roles where they don't care.
The only difference is that Intel doesn't seem to care about desktop and AMD has the chance to focus on desktop, it is where they're strongest with CPUs right now according to market share.
Just throwing this all out here.