AMD almost worth a quarter of what it paid for ATI

IAMSWIFT1 · July 21, 2015

Well, if AMD gets bought out--atleast we can buy shares cheaply before then, and hopefully make a good profit off of anyone who may take interest. Microsoft, IBM, Samsung, etc. Someone better get them soon.. otherwise we may see some interesting things if it falls under. nVidia with a possible x86 license, and Intel with actual dedicated GPU's.

And Then Nvidia Will Get Fucked Since Intel Could Put So Much Into GPUs

DarkBlade2117 · July 21, 2015

I think it's funny that Intel could straight up just buy Nvidia and AMD and make a GPU that's like $2000 that performs like a Titan x and no one could do anything about it... Intel is smarter then that though. Hopefully a bigger company like Samsung could potentially buy AMD. Any company honestly... MSI, ASUS, Sony, Microsoft, anyone.. As long as it isn't like google or Microsoft...

patrickjp93 · July 21, 2015

Intel were guilty of some unethical practices* back then But it was not with retail shops and had nothing to do with motherboards, I dare say they just wanted to clear out some old or demo stock and didn't have a retail box for it.

*compiler gimping for AMD and anti trust practices with the PC makers.

I still contend the compiler gimping ruling was utter BS from an incompetent/ignorant judge. Intel didn't own or manage the Cinebench benchmark. At the time no one published official cycle count latencies for architectures (the basis of ICC's optimization rules). And thus not only could Intel have not had motive in this case, they wouldn't have had the means to actually deceive the market. AMd should have manned up and helped Intel build a unified compiler for both their chip lines.

mr moose · July 21, 2015

I still contend the compiler gimping ruling was utter BS from an incompetent/ignorant judge. Intel didn't own or manage the Cinebench benchmark. At the time no one published official cycle count latencies for architectures (the basis of ICC's optimization rules). And thus not only could Intel have not had motive in this case, they wouldn't have had the means to actually deceive the market. AMd should have manned up and helped Intel build a unified compiler for both their chip lines.

We've had this argument before and I don't intend going there again, however I do think it would be good if AMD and Intel worked together on the compiler.

DarkBlade2117 · July 21, 2015

@Fayu it is scary but I just thought it was funny.,

The mist we can hope for is some big company to burnout AMD, whether it's Samsung, ASUS, or anyone just not someone like apple or Microsoft or.... The worst that could happen is. GOOGLE

HalGameGuru · July 21, 2015

nVidia may not need to acquire AMD to become a player in CPU. According emulators.com creator, Darek Michoka, nVidia's Denver CPU, with its focus on Binary Translation and other virtualization technologies, could well turn out to be able to emulate x86 or PowerPC just as easily as running straight ARM code. And with the improvements still to be had in the processes underlying BT he claims it will be an important platform to make use of in the coming future. For security and utility. Especially on the cloud services side, which big name players have not been making full, or sometimes any, use of as of late.