AMD Not Competing with Intel Anymore, Goes Mobile

[NEOAethyr]

What I'm saying is, if amd goes down it could take ati with it.
1 bad thing, but yet 1 good thing, I'm not oblivious that this doesn't equate to something good, it would be bad.

Amd believes that the mobile market is the way to go.
However just how much of the mobile market does it have now anyways?
How many laptops do you see with amd's?, there are some but most are core2 socket baised.
Yes they sell amd's at bestbuy as an example, but then again how many actually buy them?, I never see amd laptops, I've seen 2 in my entier life.
How many cell phones use amd?, none?, I dont' really know but as far as I knew it was mostly arm baised.

Tegra3 just came out, and tegra2 looked good to me on paper.
How many ati chips are in cell phones?, again never even heard of one.

What I believe amd is doing is taking it's 5-10% market share and bringing it down to down 1%...
I think they reason why they are going this route is because of the trends, cell phones and alike are getting more powerful, so they want to take as much of that market as possible.
With cell phones you don't compete against intel, so they believe they can take a good portion of it with a high performance-low power chip.
But now they will compete against arm and nvidia.

If they make an arm style chip..
1. They license the cpu style from arm.
2. They compete against nvidia, which is essentually the same exact chip as there's but instead of ati vga it's nvidia vga.

If they make an x86 chip...
1. Now intel gets part of the cell phone money, they essentially become intel.
2. Amd has to compete directly with nvidia+arm with price+perf+watt.

Sure they could doit, not sayign they can't.
But there market was low cost performance desktop cpu's...
Now if they stop making desktop cpu's they essentially toss what they already have in the trash.
I could understand the cell phone pda stuff to the side off into as an extra, lots of cash could be made perhaps, stock's, etc.
But to disregard the desktop cpu market... wth.

Besides isn't it about time that amd stops paying intel for every single cpu it makes anyways?
That's bs I think...

As for ati.
I think they are complete garbage, but that's my opinion.
Good for the avg user, nothing more.
They don't make a professional card that's any good, the quality of the graphics are piss poor, it looks exactly like a console.
Both nv and ati sell bs when it comes down to it, AF is complete bs, it's a marketing thing, a completely useless feature that corrupts the video quality of every texture that is mip mapped.
Ati doesn't even try to make something halfway professional while on the other hand nvidia does at least try, even if what they put out has it's glitches.
I guess this is not the place to be complaining about that but I'm sick of ati even being around.
And if need be, if amd has to go in order for ati to go, then so beit.
But... prices could go up, and that would be bad for most everyone, that's not good...

I think this news is a major bummer for the most part.
From what it sounds like to me is that they are pulling out of the desktop market.
Maybe not completely, but eventually it could go the route that via did.

Via is owned by nvidia btw, so is acer, silicone graphics and probably others.

I'de hate to see intel's competition go away for sure.
Arm is used alot in russia I heard, because it's the cheapest chip you can buy.
I can't see amd competing here when they don't even have there own chip per say...

The future may lye with arm ^^.