AMD Looking For New CEO as Dirk Meyer Resigns

[noblerabbit]

I made a keychain from my Tricore AMD CPU as I read todays' articles.

 

[syrinxx]

@ haricotvert & nezzymighty

A more refreshing post I have not read.

 

[AGPC]

comment 1: OH NO FLAME WAR!!!
comment 2: can be CEO? i love amd!!

 

[g00ey]

[citation][nom]haricotvert[/nom]... I'm not sure people fully understand the incredible amounts of time, effort, and $$$ that is required to make something as complex and powerful as a modern CPU, whether consumer-level or enterprise-level. ... AMD internally knows that they cannot compete with Intel blow for blow in a sustainable way like they did during the FX vs. Pentium D days. ... Think of what portion of that amount is funneled back directly into JUST Research and Development - it more than likely exceeds the entirety of AMD's yearly revenue...[/citation]
I seriously don't like these statements. If AMD cannot set aside enough funds for R&D I fail to see how AMD will be able to stay in competition even in the "underdog" segment in the long run. Even a value segment CPU takes a lot of R&D if one wants it to provide value for the money. I think that eventually will Intel outcompete AMD in the value segments as well. Actually the Core i3's seem to be very competitive towards AMDs segment.

 

[buzznut]

[citation][nom]jtt283[/nom]Hmmm, that almost sounds like he was fired. I hope poor performance of Bulldozer was not a reason for it.[/citation]

Agreed, he was likely asked to resign. One can't help but wonder if the new CPU's from Intel are a mitigating factor.

 

[robwright]

I'm just absolutely flabbergasted by this -- not that Meyer resigned or was forced to resign (probably the latter), because that's not surprising at all. But what is shocking is that the company just had its coming out party for Fusion at CES last week, and now instead of everyone talking about Fusion, they're talking about the leadership void and debating what happened with Meyer (fired? resigned? scandal?). Marketing and brand awareness has never been AMD's strong suit, but this is absolutely ridiculous....

 

[Onus]

@ haricotvert & nezzymighty

A more refreshing post I have not read.

+1x10^6.

Even a "lowly" Athlon II X2 can do almost everything MOST people need. Citing figures from Steam is looking at a tiny segment of the overall market, "Gamers, who use Steam."
Businesses looking for "corporate-stable" machines are still buying C2D and C2Q systems.

I'm going to build a new rig, probably almost as soon as Bulldozer is released and there are benchmarks on it. My decision will NOT be based on performance alone; a PII X4 or i5 is already enough, performance-wise (my primary reason is to get a significantly updated mobo with latest interfaces and multi-GPU capability). I will be looking at things like power usage, and price / performance. As things stand, SB would be very nice, but may cost a lot more than it needs to. We'll see.

 

[pug_s]

Can't blame on AMD, Microsoft made windows 7 optimized for Intel cpus and everyone knows it, not to mention that Intel makes cpus in 32nm process while amd is stuck on 45nm process. So AMD is stuck on selling low end cpus while Intel makes a killing on selling a higher end cpu.

I don't think Intel wants to sell cheap cpu's to compete the likes of AMD because 1) the profit margin is lower 2) if intel priced amd out of business, antitrust lawyers would be at Intel's throats again.

At least nvidia is smart and made dual core tegra's for Windows 8 arm and got paid 1.5 billion by Intel to get out of business of making intel chipsets. AMD should license arm processors also otherwise will be out of business also.

 

[hp79]

Sold my 1000 @ $9.20 each haha.. Still ended up with a net loss of about $200.

 

[erdinger]

AMD does not need to get into the ARM market...
Nvidia had to because they don't have any licences or money to build a x86 processor.

If you look at AMD first fusion product, you might realize that AMD is able to pack a lot of GPU power in a very small die size. Compared to Intel AMD has great drivers (from ATI) so it's intergrated GPU's will be much stronger.

This is a great chance for AMD. If they can bring out a power efficient chip for laptops which makes discrete gpu's for laptops more or less obsolete they would get a lot money from the high end Laptop segment where they have absolutely no revenue right now.

They have a great product comming up for the Netbook/low end notebook market which is a market in which they had NO offering(Bobcat) and might have something to help them in the Server front (Bulldozer)

They are very strong in the GPU market while having higher margins then Nvidia (due to the small die size of their GPUs)
Compared to the last 4 years things actually never looked better then now for AMD.


Think a few years ahead. Bulldozer 32 core CPU's (as one core is extremely small) for the server market. Most probably still getting beaten performanceweise by intel when it only comes to performance.

On the desktop they will probably have the same position they have today.

In these two segments the intergrated GPU is not that importat.

In the Notebook/netbook market where AMD was the big looser up to now they have a real big chance to grad a lot of marketshare. maybe only 50% but this would already be a huge growth compared to the situation we have today.

AMD really has an advantage when it comes to integrated graphics, now they need to play their cards well and pair their monster GPU's with a CPU that is not 2 generations behind and they should get into a healthier position

 

[fayzaan]

he got fired cuz he bulldozed into the building!!!

 

[syrinxx]

There is an interesting angle over at Anandtech on this subject and it has nothing to do with the benchies of Bulldozer.

Czech it out.

 

[victomofreality]

Hire me I'll do the job...