Pemalite said:
fatslob-:O said:
@Bold Your dead on right about that LMAO. The only profitable time that they had ever since core 2 duo released was from spinning off their fabs to global foundry. Ahhh the blunders of crappy AMD management.
Eh, the volcanic islands series GPU is already more advanced than the nvidia kepler. It is nvidia who needs to step up their game to compete with amd because alot of phone manufacturers are going to be using AMD graphics IPs which will threaten nvidia's already paltry amount marketshare over there. AMD by then should get a noticeable increase in profitability by then.
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Well. Allot of Phones do use AMD's GPU tech. My phone sure does.
Hint: Adreno. - Re-arrange the letters for Radeon. :P
However, Qualcomm now owns that tech and iterates upon it.
It's a big opportunity missed by AMD in my opinion.
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Adreno is an anagram for radeon. 
It's honestly not that big of a missed opportunity because AMD at the time didn't have an ARM license so their Adreno graphics divison was mostly useless for AMD on most fronts and they thought that the desktop divison can handle every market segment and it did hold up pretty well in the laptop segment remaining competitive with nvidia there. What's more is that AMD was also in debt at the time so they also couldn't bother to be in even more debt and plus they didn't have much experience in designing ARM processors to for the most part. It was actually the better choice for AMD to sell Adreno if you know what I mean from the financial standpoint. What I'm not sure if going fabless for AMD was a good idea in the first place.
