AMD Q1 2013 earnings: revenue down 31% YoY

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bananaking21 said:

Soleron said:

bananaking21 said:
why is AMD having so much trouble lately?

- Stuck on 28nm while Intel is going to 14nm

- Less than 1/10 the R&D spending of Intel

- 40% IPC deficit to make up

Basically they don't have the cash to compete in desktop/server CPUs any more, and they are too late to move into the mobile/low power space.

so basically they are screwed for good? what market can they compete in? other then having the console market for them selfs currently

They're dead. Only their graphics division has value, I expect to see it sold to Apple, Samsung or Qualcomm within the year. They sold their phone GPU business to Qualcomm right before the tablet boom -_-

Their CPU engineers will be picked up by other companies (actually many of them already have). Intel will cease to have competition for high-end desktops and laptops, but they're a shrinking market and ARM will compete with them for the casual PC, mobile, and server.