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AMD Reports $611 Million Loss

Posted by Zonk on from the just-a-little-bit-of-money dept.

mpfife writes "Toms Hardware reports that declining microprocessor sales have pushed AMD deeply into the red. 'The company reported a net loss of $611 million on revenues of $1.233 billion, which is more than 20% below the guidance the company expected at the end of Q4 2006. The loss includes charges related to the ATI acquisition in the amount of $113 million, but is mainly a result of the increasing competition with Intel in the microprocessor market.'"

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  1. Big AMD Fan here by rolfwind · · Score: 4, Interesting

    But I have to ask, while AMD were on top with the Athlon for several years - were they just sitting on their laurels?

  2. AMD: Try listening to your customers by BillGatesLoveChild · · Score: 4, Interesting

    AMD was founded by Jerry Sanders, a high-flying salesman originally from Intel who never quite fitted in. In Andy's Grove's Bio of Intel, he describes Sanders as fast and loose and the AMD corporate culture akin to a Las Vegas Casino: Very extravagant and over the top. Nevertheless, AMD did produce some killer products which at the time made life hard for Intel.

    AMD successfully played the market well, offering very fast CPUs for cheaper than Intel could muster. But recently they dropped the ball. Not only have they not come up with an answer to Intel's Core Duo, but AMD have been doing some bizarre stuff like taking over ATI, then announcing they would build DRM into ATI graphics cards. http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/03/28/14OPcurv e_1.html How is that going to reverse a declining market share? AMD should learn from the disaster Intel faced a few years ago when it wanted to build a CPUID into their chips that would allow tracking of customers. There was a backlash. Now here AMD are doing the same thing, at the same time their market share is declining?

    Maybe they (and SONY) should fire their board and create a Slashdot forum to run the company. We could hardly do a worse job!

    On the bright side Intel are turning out nice stuff these days and have said they intend to get into the 3D market again. Declining PC sales will hopefully keep their prices down. Even if AMD go down the tubes, we'll be ok... I hope.