UPDATE: AMD Insiders Speak Out: BAPCo Exit is An Excuse for Bulldozer

[gosh]

Good read

http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news....aspx?pageid=0

"There are more people like me at AMD that want to go and fight from an engineering perspective in the same spirit of the old Jerry Sanders days. We don't want an AMD that is going off and writing blogs about transparency and fluff, while engineers are frustrated. Engineers are not getting the resources they need, we're not getting the time and the investment we to build and optimize new architectures.



Instead, they feed marketing fluff and kool-aid, and all these self-centered blogs - instead of focusing on doing what we know how to do best. Fight, survive and challenge against all odds.



Thankfully, we'll have a new CEO soon and hopefully all this strategy nonsense will be out the door."

"Many of our best engineers are leaving to join companies like Apple, Freescale, Qualcomm, Samsung even NVIDIA and Intel - people that thought they would never work for another company.



Look at AMD's history - how we beat Intel Pentium III, which was based on one of the best CPU architectures of all time - the Pentium Pro - and we beat the them with the K7 (original Athlon). Look at K8, 64-bit innovation and the integrated memory controller. Look at how ATI came back from the brink and beat by NVIDIA soundly with R300 and took performance leadership across the board.



We created the netbook in OLPC project with Nicholas Negroponte when everybody was laughing at him and then gave the whole market to Intel. We were shipping millions of graphics chips for cellphones and were in TVs long before today’s leaders. We know how to win."

[demonkevy666]

but ati got money from them... ?

we know how to do win, but we don't have the money and resources to try.

[jimbo75]

What a crock of e. What was the reason Nvidia and Via left? Was that because of BD too?

[Sentential]

The author of these lines believes that the key reason that pushed AMD into regression was the failed merger between NVIDIA and AMD in 2005. This lead to a panic acquisition of ATI Technologies, for which AMD paid a grand total of 5.9 billion dollars (5.4B plus 350 plus 120 million).

People poo-poo'ed me in another thread when I said AMD would be bankrupt or an acquisition target from another company; I stand by what I said, some one is going to use this opportunity to buy out AMD off the courthouse steps and it just might be nVidia afterall.

[Baam]

People poo-poo'ed me in another thread when I said AMD would be bankrupt or an acquisition target from another company; I stand by what I said, some one is going to use this opportunity to buy out AMD off the courthouse steps and it just might be nVidia afterall.

Doubt it would be Nvidia. Wouldn't that create a monopoly in in discrete graphics cards?

[Sentential]

Doubt it would be Nvidia. Wouldn't that create a monopoly in in discrete graphics cards?

No worse than a monopoly on CPUs; tit-for-tat as far as the DOJ would be concerned. You don't see people crying foul about the monopoly of the CPUs used in the next gen consoles.

[G0ldBr1ck]

Nvidia could buy AMD but not ATI. ATI would have to stay. Or rather it would have to split back off into ATI again.

[Sentential]

Nvidia could buy AMD but not ATI. ATI would have to stay. Or rather it would have to split back off into ATI again.

Sez who? (source = semiaccurate)



Merging ATI and Nvidia would only just barely equal the market share by Intel alone. I stand by what I said; AMD is an acquisition target; either by a private firm or some one like nVidia. To be honest buying them after their stock tanks Q1 2012 would be cheaper than trying to work a deal with Intel for an x86 liscense

[BeepBeep2]

Sez who? (source = semiaccurate)



Merging ATI and Nvidia would only just barely equal the market share by Intel alone. I stand by what I said; AMD is an acquisition target; either by a private firm or some one like nVidia. To be honest buying them after their stock tanks Q1 2012 would be cheaper than trying to work a deal with Intel for an x86 liscense

Those are skewed numbers.

The IGP in your 2500K counts in that chart.

[Sentential]

Sidenote: Hell Apple would probably buy AMD at this point. They sure as hell have the capital to do it; that's for sure.

[PerryR]

What's the point of reminding us of this old news (4 months old)? We know BD is a disappointment

[tbone8ty]

bulldozer sorta feels like the red sox collapse this year lol everybody jumping ship

[Dumo]

Gloomy forecast...http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsavi...-analyst-says/

[Particle]

Why would somebody buy AMD for their x86 license? As I recall, the license is void if a holder is purchased by another company. Of course, the same thing was supposedly true of if AMD didn't manufacture CPUs themselves anymore too, but they still make x86 products. *unsure*

[Postmodum]

This is some serious s...

I always liked AMD... i had a XP that i loved... and past the Athlon FX series because of the price and went intel...

Since then i've been waiting for my comeback to AMD side... because i believed they really put effort into the products.

Now... if this is true ( and there's no reason to believe these aren't true facts ) ... i get a chilly feeling that they may collapse at any time ( in the cpu department ).

I mean... if they have put some really good effort into BD ... this could really mean the comeback instead of the generalized frustration it become. And if the main reasons of this generalized frustration is the fact that AMD doesn't provide time, resources & working environment to their engineers ... now ... that's really sad. Sad because i feel i've been "supporting" ( not buying though ... but always waiting for their success ) a bunch of lies ...

[Postmodum]

This is some serious s...

I always liked AMD... i had a XP that i loved... and past the Athlon FX series because of the price and went intel...

Since then i've been waiting for my comeback to AMD side... because i believed they really put effort into the products.

Now... if this is true ( and there's no reason to believe these aren't true facts ) ... i get a chilly feeling that they may collapse at any time ( in the cpu department ).

I mean... if they have put some really good effort into BD ... this could really mean the comeback instead of the generalized frustration it become. And if the main reasons of this generalized frustration is the fact that AMD doesn't provide time, resources & working environment to their engineers ... now ... that's really sad. Sad because i feel i've been "supporting" ( not buying though ... but always waiting for their success ) a bunch of lies ...

[charged3800z24]

Why would somebody buy AMD for their x86 license? As I recall, the license is void if a holder is purchased by another company. Of course, the same thing was supposedly true of if AMD didn't manufacture CPUs themselves anymore too, but they still make x86 products. *unsure*

I believe it was exempted when AMD and Intel settled on the law suit. AMD had them by the genitals I believe, as they said they would pull the 64bit license, lol.

[Hornet331]

Sidenote: Hell Apple would probably buy AMD at this point. They sure as hell have the capital to do it; that's for sure.

I lol at everyone who brigngs up apple and hardware manufacturing in the same sentence... Apple doesn't make any hardware... every hardware you buy from them is made and most of the time also designed by a 3rd party company after the specs from apple... the onyl thing apple really makes is software...

[EniGmA1987]

Why would somebody buy AMD for their x86 license? As I recall, the license is void if a holder is purchased by another company. Of course, the same thing was supposedly true of if AMD didn't manufacture CPUs themselves anymore too, but they still make x86 products. *unsure*

From what I remember AMD still owned 51% of GF, which allows them to keep the license since they are the controlling interest in the company that makes the CPUs. It is technicality on the license that lets them keep it.

[Postmodum]

I lol at everyone who brigngs up apple and hardware manufacturing in the same sentence... Apple doesn't make any hardware... every hardware you buy from them is made and most of the time also designed by a 3rd party company after the specs from apple... the onyl thing apple really makes is software...

Sorry man, but your wrong. Apple main focus, now, is product design. Along with product design, comes UX, user interaction and of course, software.

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