| Pemalite said: Although the consoles aren't enough to make AMD profitable... It does give them one thing. Cash flow, cash flow can be just as important as profits as cash flow can be used to leverage new financing, it also gives a company a degree of financial stability. |
Yes, I get you point. Looking from this point of view, they really, really have to make Zen and Polaris count, because they will probably have at least PS4K and NX to pump some more cash.
Hahahaha, well, I bought one in 2015, but I already had an AM3 MB. And here in Brazil, Intel CPUs don't have a good price while AMD usually has, so their CB is more interesting here. Anyway, I'm rooting for them and hoping that Zen is a winner.
But thinking specifically about their console sales, it's a bit ridiculous that they can't use their APU tech, that's pretty much unique, to leverage lightweight notebook sales or even low-TDP versions for mobile phone APUs. That last segment coud be incredible for them, since Intel is out. Even cutting a lot of power to decrease TDP, they could end up with a beefy (for mobile) GPU there.
