Alibaba chooses AMD

[Coaxialgamer]

1 minute ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

There's only so many enthusiasts/PC gamers and professionals that benefits from GPU acceleration and well frankly, since iGPUs were part of consumer grade CPUs, dGPUs sales have dipped compared to before iGPUs existed where chipset GPUs existed rather than iGPUs  

that's my point . there aren't that many cases that use a dgpu , and most people use an igpu . Plus , gpu dies are usually sold at much lower margins. 

 

 

A cpu die is usually much smaller and sells for more than a gpu die . Just look a the 6950x . It has a ~240mm² die size and sells for 1700$ . Then you have the rx 480 , which is roughly the same size and on the same node , but only sells for 200-250$

[DrMikeNZ]

42 minutes ago, Minibois said:

where I live, pretty much no one buys from Amazon. So pretty unsurprising to me Amazon has competition  

Almost nothing ships from Amazon to where I live, and those that do the shipping costs from Amazon are more than the cost of the product.

Alibaba is just as far away, but offers free shipping on a lot of orders.

[SurvivorNVL]

2 minutes ago, Starelementpoke said:

Damn, that's like $1,600

Yep.  $1608 was the final.  Used that little bit of cash to get some Biomed stocks, and then ended up selling all my stocks a month and a half ago.  Ended up spending $38,000 on silver, gold, and AK-47 / AK-74's.  Worth it.

[Starelementpoke]

1 minute ago, SurvivorNVL said:

Yep.  $1608 was the final.  Used that little bit of cash to get some Biomed stocks, and then ended up selling all my stocks a month and a half ago.  Ended up spending $38,000 on silver, gold, and AK-47 / AK-74's.  Worth it.

Dear god. 

[AresKrieger]

Well if amd is offering a better deal price wise why wouldn't they? Though I find it odd that the graphics chips make sense for this tbh, I guess it's a highly parallel task but it makes me wonder why I haven't heard other companies doing it there must be a limitation of some kind that stops them from doing so.

[Prysin]

2 minutes ago, AresKrieger said:

Well if amd is offering a better deal price wise why wouldn't they? Though I find it odd that the graphics chips make sense for this tbh, I guess it's a highly parallel task but it makes me wonder why I haven't heard other companies doing it there must be a limitation of some kind that stops them from doing so.

most other companies arent large enough to make it worth it.

 

Alibaba is one of the biggest businesses in china. Its by far as large as Amazon, just a few billions separating the two in size... When it comes to companies that size, you can no longer compare them to other places that runs off maybe 20-30 servers..

[PRTI]

AMD shall rise from the Ashes (If you get what i mean)

[Enderman]

1 hour ago, Prysin said:

depends if you ask @Enderman or not

Radeon pro =/= radeon pro duo.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/10521/amd-announces-radeon-pro-wx-series-wx-4100-wx-5100-wx-7100-bring-polaris-to-pros

 

 

I never said AMD's workstation (W) cards had no use case, just the Pro Duo.

 

And Alibaba isn't stupid enough to put Pro Duos in their servers, if that tells you anything.

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37 minutes ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

I was given a choice by my parents to buy some shares (with my own money ovb) if I wanted and I almost jumped onto AMD when they were $1.9~ ;-; 

Yeah, you might make a fortune on one of these runups but imo it's a little too risky.  $6.75 per share with a 6B market capitalization? no thank you...

[Mr.Meerkat]

Just now, Ryan_Vickers said:

Yeah, you might make a fortune on one of these runups but imo it's a little too risky.  $6.75 per share with a 6B market capitalization? no thank you...

But...if I did it then I'll be 100x as rich ;-;

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Just now, Mr.Meerkat said:

But...if I did it then I'll be 100x as rich ;-;

yeah and lots of people could have invested in microsoft and apple "back in the day" too, but you have to just move on  

[AresKrieger]

1 minute ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

But...if I did it then I'll be 100x as rich ;-;

Yeah but if amd went under you'd lose everything, it's essentially gambling at that point 

[Prysin]

Just now, AresKrieger said:

Yeah but if amd went under you'd lose everything, it's essentially gambling at that point 

yes? and?

Stock trading is legalized gambling. Everyone can do it and nobody cares if you lose.

[Mr.Meerkat]

Just now, Ryan_Vickers said:

yeah and lots of people could have invested in microsoft and apple "back in the day" too, but you have to just move on  

I know  

 

Ah well, it's only a little bit of money...I remember when my bank was 5-8% interest rate per month so I actually saved the 1000 quid I had but now...1-2% so I may as well keep it in cash form where I'm 2000000x less likely to spend it  

 

1 minute ago, AresKrieger said:

Yeah but if amd went under you'd lose everything, it's essentially gambling at that point 

Well I'm sure losing 1/10 of my saving account wouldn't be the end of the world...

[patrickjp93]

I wonder how the Chinese intend to get around the trade embargo put on Intel, Nvidia, and AMD that forbids them from selling high-end parts to the Chinese.

[SurvivorNVL]

1 minute ago, patrickjp93 said:

I wonder how the Chinese intend to get around the trade embargo put on Intel, Nvidia, and AMD that forbids them from selling high-end parts to the Chinese.

Awhile ago something had occurred where AMD is effectively the only one allowed to sell to them, and people back then were like, "This is amazing - they can corner that market and make a huge come-back!" and then nothing happened for fourteen months until now.

[YongKang]

58 minutes ago, Prysin said:

They're Asians. Lisa Su prob showed them a body pillow with Ruby on it and they all went "Kawaii" and ran off to buy their products

It's just that the CEO of Alibaba is one insightful guy who can see the potential in people. Plus, we don't know what's RWBY in China. No youtube + there are better waifus out there.

[Prysin]

2 minutes ago, patrickjp93 said:

I wonder how the Chinese intend to get around the trade embargo put on Intel, Nvidia, and AMD that forbids them from selling high-end parts to the Chinese.

middleman companies and or shipping stuff straight out of assembly plants in Taiwan and Malaysia

[patrickjp93]

1 minute ago, SurvivorNVL said:

Awhile ago something had occurred where AMD is effectively the only one allowed to sell to them, and people back then were like, "This is amazing - they can corner that market and make a huge come-back!" and then nothing happened for fourteen months until now.

AMD can sell them CPUs, but that's because AMD's current server parts suck.

[SurvivorNVL]

2 minutes ago, patrickjp93 said:

AMD can sell them CPUs, but that's because AMD's current server parts suck.

That and their future parts that're more Haswell like.  I think like @Prysinsaid, they can get around it with middle-man companies / proxies.

[Djole123]

Someone needs to tell them to get some good sound isolation...

[Misanthrope]

Alibaba as a company name always tickles me: Here you have the chinese equivalent of Ebay o Amazon only is notorious for shady deals and outright pirates and you name your platform after the tale of the 40 thieves....

[Prysin]

12 minutes ago, Misanthrope said:

Alibaba as a company name always tickles me: Here you have the chinese equivalent of Ebay o Amazon only is notorious for shady deals and outright pirates and you name your platform after the tale of the 40 thieves....

atleast they got the damn name right!

[DocSwag]

Wow... AMD seems to be getting a lot of partnerships recently... First there was that hint with some Chinese corporation which brought in 150 million and should bring in more in the long term, then there were two new consoles, and now this.

[WereCat]

16 hours ago, Starelementpoke said:

LE GASP, IMPOSSIBRU

 

Most people in my country haven't even heard of Amazon.