AMD Splitting into Two Companies

[personalmgt]

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Well-known CPU and motherboard manufacturer AMD announced that it will be splitting into two companies. According to a story on NYTimes, this is AMD's drastic effort to maintain its position against its main rival Intel. Apparently, one company will be "focused on designing microprocessors and the other on the costly business of manufacturing them."

Company reps said two Abu Dhabi investment firms would pour in at least $6 billion into the two companies with the main purpose to finance AMD's new chip factory, which is to be built near Albany, N.Y. Other efforts are focused on upgrading one of the company’s existing plants in Dresden, Germany.

“This is the biggest announcement in our history,” said AMD’s chief executive, Dirk Meyer. “This will make us a financially stronger company, both in the near term and in the long term, as a result of being out from the capital expense burden we have had to bear.”

Great news, just great. And we remain pawns of the industry (pawns, I tell ya!), destined to by their products, which I'm hoping will at least still be cheaper than those from Intel.

source: AMD Splitting into Two Companies

hope they can get that intel-killer processors.

[yans311]

how sad....

[etgo]

unsa on nalang....

[yugi]

Y sad mga bro? did u get the point? sa akong pagkasabot the AMD b4 different kaayo karon as mayer is the new chief executive, remember before the time of ruiz wala maayo pagdala coz dili cya pareho ni meyer ka Highly experience labi na sa technical fields. They split meaning they will expand their big company into like two towers.

Do not just under estimate AMD, you dont know whats the real story. I heard a lot of humor INTEL is getting crazy nowadays. Dont forget ang bola ga tuyok.

[EntrePinoy]

murag in ani lang na bro

two brains are better than one

[edwin_mylar]

Nice! Now AMD could compete Intel in sales and performance... pero ever since, AMD is able to give equal performance and much cheaper than the costly processors of intel.. samot na kung madayon ang split... hehehe...

[edwin_mylar]

Y sad mga bro? did u get the point? sa akong pagkasabot the AMD b4 different kaayo karon as mayer is the new chief executive, remember before the time of ruiz wala maayo pagdala coz dili cya pareho ni meyer ka Highly experience labi na sa technical fields. They split meaning they will expand their big company into like two towers.

Do not just under estimate AMD, you dont know whats the real story. I heard a lot of humor INTEL is getting crazy nowadays. Dont forget ang bola ga tuyok.

well said!

[Kenshiro]

We really wont see the effects for this split up or restructuring until a decade from now.
But its a good thing for them.
Intel is also positioning for monopoly, With their super expensive core i7 processors.
I Hope upcoming AMDs Shanghai and Daneb cores will at least outperform Intel's E8xxx Wolfdale processors. I wont expect them to outperform the nehalem ones.

[COMCAM]

hmmm I'm looking forward to new better products

[vashtinone]

mas maau btaw na para ang isa ka company focus lng gyd..