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Old January 23rd 09, 11:20 AM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips
Jan Panteltje
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Default AMD dead?

This is a German link, but the numbers (scroll down)
should be readable in any language:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/AMD-t...meldung/122211

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Old January 23rd 09, 04:45 PM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips
chrisv
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Default AMD dead?

Jan Panteltje wrote:

This is a German link, but the numbers (scroll down)
should be readable in any language:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/AMD-t...meldung/122211


Nvidia should buy them.

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Old January 24th 09, 10:45 PM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips
Robert Redelmeier
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Default AMD dead?

Jan Panteltje wrote in part:
This is a German link, but the numbers (scroll down)
should be readable in any language:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/AMD-t...meldung/122211


Well, I read german and used to subscribe to c't. Reliable people,
and they weren't particularly negative.

But you could have said AMD would die at the end of 2007
just as well as at the end of 2008. One day it will happen.
Almost no companies live forever.

I would caution reading too much into the profit numbers. While
they are almost certainly correct, accounting rules are subject to
"management". Companies can have "kitchen sink" quarters where they
"bring out their dead" -- projects and other losses that were not
recognized/incorporated when they should have been.

AMD may well die of a coup-de-grace from its' bankers/financiers.
Whether it deserves it or not. So could Intel, depending on
cash reserves. As for AMD health in the marketplace, I would
look to #CPUs sold versus Intel. Who has lost more volume?
ASP is tricky because it includes sector shifts.


-- Robert R

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Old January 25th 09, 02:33 AM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips
Yousuf Khan
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Default AMD dead?

Jan Panteltje wrote:
This is a German link, but the numbers (scroll down)
should be readable in any language:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/AMD-t...meldung/122211


Everybody is hurting these days. The German memory maker, Qimonda, has
filed for bankruptcy protection. Intel is closing down 5 fabs, and
laying off over 5000 people. AMD is laying off 1100 more people too.
Circuit City was under bankruptcy protection but it's now being liquidated.

Yousuf Khan
 




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