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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: 2) by K_benzoate on Tuesday June 23 2015, @05:26AM
I've been looking for an ARM/RISC notebook and I can't find one. I don't want a Chromebook. I want a 12-15 inch notebook with standard notebook components and an unlocked bootloader so I can run a full-fledged Linux distro. There are a few Chinese mini desktop computers running Android but they have the same problem; it's hard to get real Linux running on them, and I'd really prefer a notebook. There's the Raspberry Pi and other SBCs but they're underpowered and not expandable.
I think ARM is a good development, but choice still seems limited to mobile/SBC equipment and proprietary software. And I'm not sure we'll ever see the product I want because your average consumer seems to prefer tablets and smartphones to real laptops and desktops. I fear that nerds and tinkerers are going to have a rough time of it in 10-20 years. New, proper, computing hardware is going to be almost exclusively for professionals and will have a commensurate markup.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by TheRaven on Tuesday June 23 2015, @09:43AM
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(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Tuesday June 23 2015, @03:48PM
Question....can't you take one of the bazillion Android notebooks and slap Linux on it? After all unlocking Android is pretty trivial and from the looks of this tutorial [pressbyte.com] you can easily slap Ubuntu on the Asus Transformer which looks to be about the size and power you're after. HTH.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 23 2015, @08:55PM
I think getting it to work well is a significant sticking point. I think it is mostly the graphics drivers that tend to be the problem as the Android graphics stack is different to the regular Linux graphics stack.
But what might be a more significant issue is, are there actually any Android notebooks in the 12-15" range that use regular notebook components?