Thread: AMD lays off more than 10% more employees

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How the hell do they hope to even compete with Intel processors when they lay off in the double digits and switch focus from a lot of their design teams to mobile (note: razor thin profit margins) processors.

Not sure what the new CEO is thinking. Maybe the new CTO from Apple can help align the stumbling company...

Wow... and of all people to lay off, Carrell Killebrew?

Hopefully someone picks him up...

Looks like a sign that AMD is going downhill. Sad to see...

Respectfully,
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AMD cannot compete with Intel. At least not directly and certainly not very well in the desktop performance market. What they can do is compete very well with Intel in the mobile, budget desktop, and server market. And they are very well situated to compete with Nvidia in the discreet graphics market and in integrated graphics, Intel cannot compete with AMD very well. Intel is big enough to cope with the lower profit margins in the performance desktop category. AMD simply is not. There is just not a lot of money to be made in that segment. As much as everyone reading this loves their 4+ Ghz CPUs, the simple fact is that not too many of the general population really benefit from blistering CPU performance. Even gamers need it less and less these days as the load shifts more and more to the GPU. And even for general computing, that gets done on the desktop less and less every day. I almost always check my e-mail from my phone instead of the computer. AMD is not going to go away for two reasons. First, they can compete very well in the areas I mentioned. They seem to be re-aligning to do so. There is no sense in trying to beat Intel on high-end desktop CPUs. Intel has too much R&D money. They can compete on a bang for the buck basis though in the mid to low end. Second Intel needs AMD. Intel needs them because they do not want to be a monopoly and deal with all that comes from that. And Intel needs AMD because of the way their patents licenses works. A little known fact is that Intel and AMD have a great deal of agreements that allows each one to use the other's innovations and patents. Not everything is shared, but a great deal is. Those awesome i7 and i5 CPUs we all love would be pretty lame if Intel was not allowed to use the AMD64 extensions to x86. Don't worry about AMD. They have been through worse and are still hanging in there.