(rant mode)
How many times will i have to repeat that:
" AMD is going to go under"
"If AMD fails"
"If AMD were to die"
"Intel [...] trying to kill AMD"
"the moment AMD goes down"
and so on
This is total BS. AMD does *not* live off the CPU market, or they would be long time dead. Neither does Intel BTW.
They are chip manufacturers, and have huge respective markets (AMD = flash memory, Intel = network chips, mainly, but they are very diversified).
The CPU market is the 'flagship product' market, a show-off, good-for-marketing market, and it fosters innovation and better engineering techniques.
A good comparison is Formula 1 (or Indy or Nascar for you Americans). If Honda or Ferrari were to lose a season, would they go under ? Let's be serious.
They're in that race knowingly, and they know the risks involved. One cannot win every time. This time AMD lost. And so what.
AMD existed long before they started to make x86 clones. Intel is living off a very lucrative network and communications product market. How do you think they lived when their flagship was the crappy p4 @ 1.4 or 1.5, when the half priced tbird was kicking its ass all around ?
As for the stock market they were hit just like every other technology company. Nothing to worry about really.
The barton is a miss. The FX is a flop. Will NVidia and AMD go under ? That would be assuming their respective CEO's and managers are total morons. I assume not. One never puts all his eggs in the same basket. Especially on a harsh, dangerous, fast-paced, competitive market (or race).
(/rant mode)
yeah i've got a headache, a flood of work (overnight, even) so don't tickle me
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