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Bofferbrauer2 said:

JEMC said:

When I said that AMD can't work on two architectures at the same time, I was tlaking about the GPU side, not the whole company. Simply put, working on Fiji and now Vega is part of the reasons why AMD has to rebrand their cards so much nowadays. Without those extra chips to worry about, and while still being limited by the current node, AMD could refine and optimize their main architecture more, launching products that aren't just the old one with a new sticky, but actual revisions that justify the new name.

And if they have to completely leave the high-end market to do it, then so be it. After all, it's been quite a while since they had something that could actually compete with Nvidia.

But well, you're agreeing with me that they're not big enough anymore, so they should start realizing that and act accordingly.

That was until Vega, since then the resources that were bound for the development of a brand new CPU architecture are now freed up and used in the development of Navi and after that a GCN successor.

Also, with the continuing success of Ryzen and Epyc, AMD has been hiring again, which should help maintain both divisions at the same speed.

Regarding Krzanich, had he been able to keep it in his pants he wouldn't have been fired. As for who will take over, they only need someone that doesn't screw things up. Intel got Raja to try again to make a proper GPU, and got Keller to develop the next CPUs, so unless the new CEO is stupid and tries to reinvent the wheel, they should be "fine".

Keller only came in April and thus probably is working on the next architecture after Tiger Lake. While with him it's probably going to end up great, it's still many years away. Don't forget he joined AMD in 2012 to design Zen, a full 5 years before it's release. Until then, AMD can wreak some havok among Intel's plans

I'm glad to see AMD doing well enough to actually start hiring again. Hopefully they hire the right people for the right jobs.

And of course Intel will have to face AMD with whatever they had in their roadmap for the time being, but they had to do that no matter the CEO, right? So it doesn't matter who's at the helm as long as he/she doesn't start messing around.

For now, Intel has the 9xxx series, which by the looks of it is just the same processors with a 100/200 MHz increase and the launch of the 8 core part.