Report: AMD Hired JP Morgan to Explore Options

[tuffjuff]

[citation][nom]kog91[/nom]AMD has been in this situation more than once, the end of 2008 for one. The problem is that people look at stock values and assume that is a measure of the success or failure of a company. That is simply not true. AMD has been at this game for a very long time. It may mean they need to reinvent themselves in terms of markets and tactics, but they are a long way off from ever throwing in the towel.Or have you all forgotten that 20% of AMD is owned by the United Arab Emirates. With that kind of capital pool, revenue isn't the only piece of the story.[/citation]

Except AMD wasn't competitive in 2008, and is even less competitive now.

 

[Thomas Creel]

JP Morgan has been consuming failing companies since the late 1800s. WTF are they doing with AMD

 

[Guest]

tuffjuff, high performence x86 is owned by Intel, but the market is not only high performence, look at Apple, they make more money with ARM based chips and products than Intel ever did with x86, x86 is in no way the major profit maker for AMD, and AMD will continue selling x86 based low end/low cost solutions, but the future player in low power CPUs ARM has so much of the maket for low power devices!
x86 V x86 is so last decade, low power devices powered by ARM based CPUs are popping up faster than replicators on Stargate, there is so much ARM based silicon out there! Throw a stick in an electronics/applience store, chances are, if you hit a fridge or a Tablet, or other device, you'll hit an ARM CPU based device! AMD may not be at the front of the x86 race, but the race has moved away from an x86 race to an ARM race, just look at Apple's bank account!

 

[kog91]

[citation][nom]tuffjuff[/nom]Except AMD wasn't competitive in 2008, and is even less competitive now.[/citation]

You're joking right?

Q4 2008:

"AMD's laptop-processor market share grew to 12.7 percent in the fourth quarter compared to the 10.2 percent it held the previous year. Intel's laptop processor share dropped to 87.3 percent compared to 89.1 percent the previous year. AMD also recorded gains in the desktop processor market, with its market share up to 28.6 percent from 26 percent last year. Intel's market share dropped to 71.1 percent from the 73.9 percent share it had a year ago."

Source:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9148638/AMD_takes_processor_market_share_from_Intel_IDC_says

If 29% of the desktop market isn't considered competitive, then I don't know what is.

And that isn't counting their share of the server market which drastically increased in 2009.
Nor is it taking into account AMD's financial success in purchasing ATI and rising to hold almost 40% of the desktop graphics market today.

 

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