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Updated June 21, 1720 EST (2220 BST): AMD Spokesperson Sarah Youngbauer issued a statement over the weekend denying Reuters' report. She wrote, "AMD provided official confirmation that we have not hired an outside agency to explore spinning-off/splitting the company... We remain committed to the long-term strategy we laid out for the company in May at our Financial Analyst Day, which encompasses all parts of the business."
Original storyOn Friday afternoon, Reuters reported that AMD is weighing its options, and those options include breaking the company up or spinning off some sectors into independent companies. Three anonymous sources who are "familiar with the matter" told the newswire that AMD is just looking at a break up preliminarily, noting that the company hasn't made any decisions to go forward with the move.
Remember when AMD could compete with Intel in both speed and price?
Reuters' sources had said that AMD has hired a consulting firm, "to help it review its options and draw up scenarios on how a break-up or spin-off would work."AMD has struggled over the last decade to keep up with its hulking competitor, Intel. The company's most recent quarterly financial results in April were down 26 percent year on year, with revenue of $1.03 billion and increased operating losses. In addition, the company announced that it would be leaving the microserver market, essentially scrapping its 2012 acquisition of SeaMicro. Since stepping into the role, AMD's new CEO Lisa Su has been determined "to consider every possible option to turn the company around," according to Reuters, including breaking up the company.
"One option under consideration is separating AMD's graphics and licensing business from its server business, which sells processors that power data centers," an anonymous source said, while adding that nothing has been decided and the company could remain together after all.
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 23 2015, @02:06AM
No. AMD was always slower. Those inefficient processors heat my house, and drive up my electrical bill. My smarter friends all have Intel and they laugh at me when my shitty AMD computer overheats and locks up. It has a heatsink that looks like a Mac truck radiator. The sound of the fan is like a hair salon blow dryer. AMD sucks and this is just more proof. AMD is for penny pinching losers who are ignorant. I'll never buy cheap AMD junk ever again.
(Score: 1) by outlier on Tuesday June 23 2015, @03:18AM
Well, I guess it was just a matter of time before the shills showed up here too.
(Score: 4, Informative) by TheRaven on Tuesday June 23 2015, @10:01AM
I'm guessing that you're very young and don't remember the K7 then. It was much cooler than a Pentium 4 for the same performance (and also a fraction of the cost). And you definitely don't remember the K6-2, which was a lot cheaper than the Pentium II and had a much smaller heatsink (Intel moved to the slot architecture to be able to fit a bigger heat sink on the package!) and used much cheaper motherboards. It was slightly slower clock-for-clock than a Pentium II, but when a 400MHz K6-2 was cheaper than a 266MHz Pentium II, no one really cared. Or even before that, when a 200MHz K6 was cheaper than a 133MHz Pentium and used identical heat sinks.
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(Score: 2) by tibman on Tuesday June 23 2015, @12:18PM
AMD K6-2 was the CPU for my first homebuilt machine. Have been an AMD fan since then. I do like intel SSDs and wifi cards though. AMD doesn't make the very fastest CPUs anymore but they do have some very cool ones. The A series is great for tiny computers. I'd love to build an FX series but there is still and old Phenom-2 under the desk that just won't die.
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(Score: 2) by TheRaven on Tuesday June 23 2015, @01:51PM
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Hairyfeet on Tuesday June 23 2015, @04:02PM
Do it dude, pull the trigger and get an FX. I felt the same as you.....until I got a chance to put an FX8350 through its paces at the shop and holy shit, it just blew away my Phenom X6 WHILE using less power overall! I was impressed enough I picked up an FX8320E and despite its base clock having 600Mhz over my X6, 2 more cores than my X6, and twice the RAM it STILL uses less than half the power in day to day tasks like video watching and web surfing thanks to the FX8 being able to lower its clocks so much lower than the X6 and when I slam it? Still pulling a little over 10w less despite having the turbo kick up to 4GHz.
So I'd say its definitely worth the upgrade, you can always keep the Phenom II for a spare, give it to a relative hell you can always underclock it and use it as a media server for your house if you want. I can tell ya I'm damned glad I pulled the trigger, these FX chips are fricking beasts!
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(Score: 1) by Type44Q on Tuesday June 23 2015, @06:03PM
Intel moved to the slot architecture to be able to fit a bigger heat sink on the package
Intel moved from Socket7 to Slot1 for licensing reasons.
By the way, fuck you, Dice!
(Score: 2) by TheRaven on Thursday June 25 2015, @08:11AM
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