Entrepreneurship assaignment help and look over (AMD)

[themaniac]

i'm not really sure what to put in question 6 so can you guys help out with that one and can you also look over it and tell me if there is any incorrect information I have

 

1. What is the name of the company? (1.0 points)

AMD(Advanced Micro Devices)

 

2. Is this mainly a product-based or service-based business? (1-2 sentences. 2.0 points)

It is a product-based business

 

3. What products or services is the company best known for? (2-3 sentences. 2.0 points)

CPU's(Central Processing Unit's) and GPU's(Graphics Processing Unit's)

 

4. Where does this company sell its products or services? (2-4 sentences. 2.5 points)

In retail stores such as Amazon, Newegg, and Microcenter.

 

5. Describe at least two of this company's competitors. (2-4 sentences. 2.5 points)

Intel is AMD's main CPU competitor in the enterprise and consumer market. They are worth about 17x more than AMD, with a market cap of 171B compared to AMD's market cap of 10B.

Nvidia is AMD's main GPU competitor in the enterprise and consumer market. They are worth about 6x more than AMD, with a market cap of 57B compared to AMD's.

 

6. How did the entrepreneur make the business different from other companies, especially its competitors? Describe at least one way. (2-4 sentences. 2.5 points)

 

7. What things has the entrepreneur or company done to help the community? Describe at least one example of this. (2-4 sentences. 2.5 points)

It helped improve performance and lower prices of computers. Create new technology and improve existing technologies.

 

8. Why do you think this company became successful? Describe at least one reason. (2-4 sentences. 5.0 points)

It was one of the few companies to bring proper competition to Intel. And improving Intel's CPU macro architect(x86) by making a 64bit extension(making it now x86-64) causing it to become the only company other than Intel to have a license for x86.

 

9. What challenges has the company faced? Describe at least one challenge. (2-4 sentences. 5.0 points)

Buying a debt filled company ATI and corporate espionage.

ATI was a GPU manufacturer company competing with Nvidia. AMD bought them as a way to get into the GPU market, but during the negotiations ATI hid the amount of debt they were in, causing AMD to over pay for ATI.

 

A former Intel CEO payed companies like HP and Dell to not use AMD products in their computers.

[acturisme]

Well q4 is missing information.  AMD also sells to the OEM market.  They also sell to the game console market. 

A third competitor for q5 might be Qualcomm.

You might need specific details for q7.

Good luck with your assignment.

[handymanshandle]

Well it should be noted it was a group of entrepreneurs who founded AyyMD AMD. 

 

Though according to Wikipedia it was just Jerry Sanders. Well either way AMD and Intel have existed for nearly the past 50 years.

[themctipers]

ayymd tries to go for the most market share (currently) and they try to push newer, open source technology

for example, freesync over gsync. opengpu i think it was instead of some other shit, going for more cores than IPC 

 

appealing to the mass markets is better than appealing to the 1% of gamers who get the latest end of graphic cards. a very good budget card at a reasonable price (RX 480) will sell much higher than the GTX 1070/1080 combined, and it will compete with the 1060.

[AlTech]

1 hour ago, themaniac said:

i'm not really sure what to put in question 6 so can you guys help out with that one and can you also look over it and tell me if there is any incorrect information I have

 

1. What is the name of the company? (1.0 points)

AMD(Advanced Micro Devices)

 

Advanced Micro Devices

1 hour ago, themaniac said:

2. Is this mainly a product-based or service-based business? (1-2 sentences. 2.0 points)

It is a product-based business

It is mostly a product based business.

1 hour ago, themaniac said:

3. What products or services is the company best known for? (2-3 sentences. 2.0 points)

CPU's(Central Processing Unit's) and GPU's(Graphics Processing Unit's)

AMD is best known for designing Central Processing Units and Graphics Processing Units for computers and consoles.

1 hour ago, themaniac said:

4. Where does this company sell its products or services? (2-4 sentences. 2.5 points)

In retail stores such as Amazon, Newegg, and Microcenter.

In brick and mortar retail stores and online stores such as Amazon.

1 hour ago, themaniac said:

5. Describe at least two of this company's competitors. (2-4 sentences. 2.5 points)

AMD has several competitors including Intel corporation and Nvidia corporation.

 

Intel is AMD's primary CPU designer competitor in the consumer and enterprise market and they're customer base is considerably higher than that of AMD.

 

Nvidia is AMD's primary GPU designer competitor in the consumer and enterprise markets. Nvidia however has expanded beyond the traditional product categories and has started to design products for cars and automation. Nvidia's customer base is significantly higher than that of AMD.

1 hour ago, themaniac said:

6. How did the entrepreneur make the business different from other companies, especially its competitors? Describe at least one way. (2-4 sentences. 2.5 points)

The goal of the business was to provide high quality solutions for both consumers and enterprise in the technology industry and to innovate upon technology to push the envelope and be a leader in technology. They have so far done so by providing products at a variety of prices and providing groundbreaking innovations.

1 hour ago, themaniac said:

7. What things has the entrepreneur or company done to help the community? Describe at least one example of this. (2-4 sentences. 2.5 points)

They have made their technology more accessible by lowering the barrier to entry for both their graphics cards and central processing units. They offer a wide range of products to allow customers to purchase their products at a price suitable for them.

 

They have provided open source drivers for their graphics cards and have developed support across multiple platforms and operating systems to help the community.

 

They also introduce and create new technology and allows others to utilize it.

1 hour ago, themaniac said:

 

8. Why do you think this company became successful? Describe at least one reason. (2-4 sentences. 5.0 points)

 The company became successful by providing both excellent value and excellent products to customers. This allows many customers to be able to purchase their products however they also offer high end products which represent the best that they are capable of designing and producing.

 

They have created both original products and products which implanted an extension to an existing product such as that of the computer architecture known as x86-64. Because of certain events, they have been the only company which is licensed to produce products implementation x86-64 in their products and this has let disgruntled Intel customers to seek an alternative solution.

1 hour ago, themaniac said:

 

9. What challenges has the company faced? Describe at least one challenge. (2-4 sentences. 5.0 points)

The company faces financial challenges to meet funding goals and revenue goals for their products as their competitors are often more successful than them. Despite this, they are forced to innovate if they wish to remain in the industry.

 

This was not helped by the acquisition of ATI, the graphics card competitor to Nvidia at the time, and corporate espionage. Additionally, some PC manufacturers such as Dell, HP and other companies have been given financial incentives by former Intel executives and CEOs for not using AMD's products.