AMD is dead. Long live AMD The Survivor

[tajoh111]

AMD will not fail.

I am not a fan boy. I currently have product from Nvidia, Intel, AMD, and ATI in my machines at home.

Intel cannot allow AMD to fail.

Just as Microsoft cannot allow Apple to fail.

If AMD looks to be going completly out of business Intel will step in and just give AMD money to stay in business.

Here is the senario (sp?) AMD closes. DOJ/FTC step in and break Intel into little pieces because they are a monoply now, being the only Desktop CPU manufacturer left.

Intel will not let that happen.

Long live AMD keep building new CPUs to push Intel to build new CPUs. Competition is good for every consumer on the planet.

Competition is good, but a government can let a business fail and go bankrupt because it is not the end all be all for the company. Look at the automakers. The government although helped them out, let them go bankrupt.

Letting a automaker go bankrupt has much worse repercussion than a CPU maker.

Not only are many, many more jobs lost, more money go into international economies since their are competing international automakers. Intel and AMD are both USA based companies so, even if Intel was only around, they would just split it up into multiple companies and be pumping money back into the US economy.

They could still let AMD go bankrupt and have them be restructured by a bankruptcy company which might do them some good in a way. Not saying I want them to go bankrupt, but I sense there is alot of fat in how AMD runs things. I still can't understand how their 48xx series sells so well and they come out with pathetic income. You can blame the economy, but we know the 4xxx series has sold well, they are getting money from wii sales, and xbox 360 sales, but where is all that money?

I think one more key for them to make money is lower infrastructure cost(e.g how did Hector Ruiz(AMD ceo) get paid more than Intel ceo) and reduce overhead which why being run by a bankruptcy company might do them good. I have a feeling that is why NV is able to make more money than them. Apple and NV has paid their ceo's badly when the company underperforms, this is something AMD should adopt.

I think AMD needs to change how it is run(not necessarily their product designs), especially when you look at their long-term finances. They can't make a few hundred million 1 year and then loses hundreds of millions to billions for the most part in other years. Its not a good long term business model obviously, and I think the company can use some remodeling which AMD can't do themselves, someone needs to step in, whether it is a genius finance wiz team or the government. A good product even something like the original athlon(which was just as big as core 2 duo back in the day) is enough to save AMD for the long term, they need to be run differently.