AMD's Xbox One Deal Valued at $3+ Billion USD

[mynith]

AMD needs this money to get their act together. Piledriver is a good processor. The fact that it's been overclocked to 8.67 GHz (so far, although the guys only used one Bulldozer module), but if leaked performance figures for Haswell are anything to go by, even a liquid helium cooled FX-8350 may not be a match for an overclocked i7 on water.

 

[czerro]

This is great. AMD and Radeon have been undervalued. Their CPU's are more versatile and they have a long term goal they are working towards and forcing the rest of the industry to coincide: moving controllers on die and removing communication overhead between cpu/memory/gpu. They are starting to find their footing and they just need more things to take advantage of multi-threading at this point. Intel has been forced to step up their game from die-shrink race (where they will always win) to actually making efficient AND quick chips. AMD has forced NVIDIA to drop their prices and improve their product as well. This can only mean good things. Intel probably has the resources to take AMD's lead on this, but they are still crippled by the crappy Intel GPUs. Whatever happened to that Intel game-changer (MCU or something?) that was teased a couple years ago and is essentially what AMD is putting in the consoles today and what their APU roadmap is ultimately about? NVIDIA will be forced to drop prices and play AMD's game for a while to get traction in market.

 

[czerro]

This is great. AMD and Radeon have been undervalued. Their CPU's are more versatile and they have a long term goal they are working towards and forcing the rest of the industry to coincide: moving controllers on die and removing communication overhead between cpu/memory/gpu. They are starting to find their footing and they just need more things to take advantage of multi-threading at this point. Intel has been forced to step up their game from die-shrink race (where they will always win) to actually making efficient AND quick chips. AMD has forced NVIDIA to drop their prices and improve their product as well. This can only mean good things. Intel probably has the resources to take AMD's lead on this, but they are still crippled by the crappy Intel GPUs. Whatever happened to that Intel game-changer (MCU or something?) that was teased a couple years ago and is essentially what AMD is putting in the consoles today and what their APU roadmap is ultimately about? NVIDIA will be forced to drop prices and play AMD's game for a while to get traction in market.