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posted by CoolHand on Monday June 22 2015, @10:47PM   Printer-friendly
from the survival-of-the-fittest dept.

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."
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On 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: 3, Informative) by TheRaven on Tuesday June 23 2015, @09:43AM

    by TheRaven (270) on Tuesday June 23 2015, @09:43AM (#199803) Journal
    This is likely to change in the next couple of years. Cavium and Applied Micro are producing ARMv8 chips for servers (I played with a Cavium one recently: 48 cores per socket, two sockets. Fun!) and the low-end versions of those are likely to be a plausible fit for higher-end ARM laptops. An ARM-based laptop that can run Android instances in VMs would be nice for development - you wouldn't have to worry about differences in performance from emulation or running x86 versions for debugging.
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