AMD Cuts Its Workforce by 10% to Fund New Strategies

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Must be a lot of youngin's here... :)

AMD has not indicated that they have ANY intentions of cutting back on development of laptop, desktop or server CPU development. What the PR says is they are cutting COSTS by eliminating some personnel, (primarily in marketing/communication/PR) so they can use those funds to expand into PC appliances. This is just another revenue stream for AMD. Nothing has changed in the laptop, desktop or server CPU world.

Geesch people read all sorts of nonsense into a PR that was never stated or even implied.
 
[citation][nom]beenthere[/nom]Must be a lot of youngin's here... AMD has not indicated that they have ANY intentions of cutting back on development of laptop, desktop or server CPU development. What the PR says is they are cutting COSTS by eliminating some personnel, (primarily in marketing/communication/PR) so they can use those funds to expand into PC appliances. This is just another revenue stream for AMD. Nothing has changed in the laptop, desktop or server CPU world.Geesch people read all sorts of nonsense into a PR that was never stated or even implied.[/citation]
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[citation][nom]zer0net[/nom]It better be the marketing team behind the bulldozer who made it sound nothing like it actually is.[/citation]

Actually Bulldozer/Zambezi/FX series is a nice upgrade for many people with older model CPUs. It may not be what many folks had hoped for, but it's still a very good CPU and will serve those looking to upgrade, well.
 
This dassapoints me because there was no mention of extra allocation of resources to there enthusiast segment.

Really though, AMD has consistently over the last two years posted better numbers, going from heavy losses to competent net earnings. Hopefully slowdozer will make a decent server chip, it sounds like it will at least. AMD has a huge lead on Intel with there Fusion chipsets, hopefully they can cash in before Intel catches up and keep some good competition.

I do hope Rory Read know what he's doing and isn't just being and a-hole to make it look like he's doing something...
 
[citation][nom]eddieroolz[/nom]If AMD can save excess cash while not downgrading the capability too much, then I wouldn't call this a result of hard times.[/citation]

Ya if you had and old AMD 3200+ CPU. If anyone has the 965 BE. They better off keeping it. AMD is just becoming dust in the wind my friend!!!
 
[citation][nom]alidan[/nom]besides the p4 era, were they ever in the high performance area? i thought they were always a decent alternative area and good low cost. and again, i say wait till windows 8 and revision 1 of bulldozer to pass judgement. because it will be what, a year, year and a half till intel ships its new design, i cant see ivy bridge doing much besides saving power and gaining 5-10% performance boost.[/citation]

true in the 90's AMD was just like cyrix being nothing but a 386/486 clone CPU
 
I guess when you have nothing anyone wants to buy, you don't need anyone to make anything. CPU-wise anyway.

Hopefully this means they are going to look in new directions for the future instead of plodding along with the netburstdozer for who knows how many years.
 
[citation][nom]jjtober1[/nom]This dassapoints me because there was no mention of extra allocation of resources to there enthusiast segment. Really though, AMD has consistently over the last two years posted better numbers, going from heavy losses to competent net earnings. Hopefully slowdozer will make a decent server chip, it sounds like it will at least. AMD has a huge lead on Intel with there Fusion chipsets, hopefully they can cash in before Intel catches up and keep some good competition. I do hope Rory Read know what he's doing and isn't just being and a-hole to make it look like he's doing something...[/citation]

Actually it's pretty good for heavily virtualized systems. Desktop performance is mixed, and for the cost I'd recommend against purchasing it. If someone feels they need an AMD CPU then go with the 970/980 BE and clock them to 3.7~4.0 Ghz.

I agree that APU's are the next thing, their awesome and perfect for their market place. Mobile computing devices are catching on more and more these days.
 
D[citation][nom]eddieroolz[/nom]If AMD can save excess cash while not downgrading the capability too much, then I wouldn't call this a result of hard times.[/citation]

Doesn't matter what they call it... They still have a BIG "L" hanging over their heads with their spankingly new BD processor.....
 
This announcement is full of shite. Anytime you see the 80s buzzword "efficiencies", run the other way. Guess I'll go place my 2500K and GTX580 order now.
 
Say goodbye to reasonable prices on your next CPU purchase. It's a good thing that ARM CPUs are stepping up to compete with Intel...let's just hope they can get fast enough quickly to fill the competitive void on the desktop/laptop. Otherwise, everyone will be paying Apple prices for their next computer.
 
[citation][nom]buzznut[/nom]Actually trimming the fat is probably what the company needs right now. They as a company have actually been doing better in all phases except for high end desktop CPUs over the last six months. They have become profitable, there's no reason to think that the company is dead because they have to give up the enthusiast processor market. Yeah, AMD is going to be fine even if they aren't focusing their energies in the direction you or I would like. They've been making the best integrated graphics solution for a couple of years now and that's a big deal for OEMs.[/citation]

yea they have ATI to thank for those integrated graphics. all Intel has to do is make good GPU's like AMD and NVIDIA for there APU's and then i bet the AMD will lose many of those OEM's
 
I have to say i've been a amd customer for years.. BD was a bit sad but amd doesnt have the resources to compete with intel in the highend market.But unlike intel they own the lowend and low to midrange market. Combined with there graphic division and there growning apu's they are on the right path.. 90% of people dont need our want the best of the best. Just think about this in 5-10 year cpu's without highend graphics cores on die will be a thing of the past and if intel does not realize this there the ones that will be in trouble in the future.
 
AMD you suck, I've seen this ax cutting all over the world and it means putting more china works to work while cutting your own peoples heads for a buck. More efficient, what a load of crap.
 
lol, most of the first page of comments are full of amd obituaries.
amd did turn profit with llano mobile cpus, remember? and they have their [strike]ati[/strike] gpu division that's quite good.
amd does appear to hit some snags with glofo but that does not mean they're going under.
without amd intel will have free reign in the pc cpu market and it'll take time for arm and its partners to catch up to intel(in case they replace amd) while us users will have to buy costlier cpus.
amd needs to shape up imo, to better compete with intel and keep up with the roadmap they planned (with yearly upgrades and new platforms).
just don't pull an hp webos tablet, amd. 😀
may be give some more cpus(preferable llano) to tsmc?
 
If they really want to save some money they should take 15 minutes with gieco and save 15% or more on there car insurance
 
[citation][nom]jdwii[/nom]God you guys act like Amd cpu's are so bad no one can use them. Who really needs a I5 and a 6990 anyway that's right 3% of the whole world and below. If you guys haven't noticed Amd took 3% of Intel's market share already this Q in just APU's. Don't get me wrong i wanted BD to be good but its not the end of the world for Amd. I'm not saying they don't have worry's i'm just saying they will survive and their APU's will only get better and better. And lets face it consumers are using GPU's more and more anyways and more programs are going to be using them soon as well.[/citation]

Unless we're going ultra cheap, the i3 in most cases hands a lot of AMD CPU's their ass. The i5 just does it ever so elegantly.


You're sticking up for a company who is under performing. They could be doing much better - stop giving them excuses. They look at you, and seriously feel okay being in 2nd place - instead they need someone telling them they suck, so they can at least TRY. We clearly see how much effort they put into bulldozer.
 
Bulldozer didn't fail because it's not a good design, it failed because it's 3 years behind schedule, if this chip was released on time, it would have beaten the h*ll out of Intel. Based on their original time scales they would be releasing Bull Dozers that are 50% faster than todays bulldozers, whichwould mean they would be plenty ready to compete with Ivy Bridge or whatever else. But they didn't , so they can't.
 
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