disolitude said:
Haha...you are that sure eh? I know this site has a habbit of betting, however you are a reputable poster that knows his stuff when it comes to PCs so I have to take your opinion on this matter as factual. This is bad news for AMD enthusiasts. All 10 of them... :) |
I don't think AMD will be relevant by 2014 in CPUs. Their financials suggest they don't have the R&D cash to do big new CPUs any more; their roadmap suggests Jaguar will be replaced completely by generic ARM (instead of alongside), and we haven't seen anything about the Steamroller successor for a long time.
I don't think they'll go bankrupt, I think they'll just transition to be a much smaller company focused on doing custom design work with ARM and with its GPUs.
They're hamstrung by a current contract to use Globalfoundries to a certain capacity or pay huge penalties, when GF has no high performance 22nm or less process on the roadmap.
