AMD Not Competing with Intel Anymore, Goes Mobile

[Mungri]

As do I, AMD really milked the a64 for everything it was worth and some. It seems quite a number of people have forgotten the £1000 price tag for the old FX line (the ones actually worthy of the moniker)

Intel isn't going to drop their game if AMD pull out, they are now apple's boy toy. Whatever apple says, Intel scrambles to get done and apple right now are demanding higher performing cpu/igp with lower power. Oh hey, look at that cpu roadmap.

I'm not so sure about where AMD is going, I can see what they're doing but not, at the same time. (if you know what I mean)

Entering an already saturated ram race to the bottom market? Odd. Even more so, their ram offering which needed to be faster than currently used memory so it could let llano shine is the same slow **** they already use.

Arm markets? Good luck with that, it moves hilariously fast. Tegra 2 got a ton of design wins due to the honeycomb partnership, that's not the case this time round with ICS. No doubt early adopters will try to cash in on the early quad core market till the krait S3/4 is available for use. Qualcomm is a hard one to match/beat considering they have matching radio's in their arsenal too. Samsung and Apple are also hard ones to compete with, the A5 and Exynos were pretty epic when they came out and still are, the A5 had and still had the fastest gpu fitted to an arm core. The next gen of stuff will no doubt continue the trend. The mobile market is just as hard to crack.

Even if AMD pull out, Intel cant suddenly charge whatever they want as they wouldnt make enough sales. They still need to cover every price point, and the <£200 market is the most profitable in the computing industry.

As someone else also said, if AMD do pull out and Intel slow down with making new architectures, I would definitely welcome this as my new I7 980 would last so much longer just like my 4400+ did.

You buy a £150 CPU, you need to upgrade within 2 years. You buy a £300-£500 CPU and it lasts for at least 5 years. I would welcome that change.

CPUs are nothing like GPUs, they last for a very long time, and would last even longer if Intel werent advancing so quickly. AMD are insignificant to this though, they are so far behind that they are barely affecting Intel's progress and prices. In fact, its Intel's prices on the I5 cpus that forces AMD to sell all their CPUs for less because none of them can compete.

Also someone on another forum posted his invoice for an Athlon X2 4800+ in 2005, it was £499 EX vat :o

Atm you get an Intel 3930k for less than that including vat, or a previous gen I7 980 for £50 less, I find it laughable that people blame Intel for their pricing when AMD used to be so much worse when they had the upper hand.