AMD's Plan To Recover From Its Perfect Storm

An anonymous reader writes "TG Daily has an interesting write-up on AMD's big Q1 loss and how the company plans to get back into the black. AMD admitted that Q1 was a meltdown and not just a miss. Looks like cost cutting, including layoffs, may be on the way. But the company says it won't change its overal direction. The CEO Hector Ruiz is quoted as saying, 'We are not going to change our strategy because of one lousy quarter.'"

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Increased single-thread performance may help

[SplatMan_DK]

Keep in mind that AMD recently greatly increased the clock frequency of their CPU's (as noted on slashdot), thereby also increasing the performace of single-thread applications and games.

This may help them get back on track.

Re:Ruiz CEO since 1/2000

[jawtheshark]

I don't welcome them. The reason we got into the whole Pentium IV mess and that AMD kicked Intel in the balls with AMD64, is because Intel thought it was the only kid on the block and acted like it. Luckily, Intel wasn't the only kid on the block. (Talk about underestimating your competitors!)

If Intel drives AMD out of business, you can expect Intel to go bad again. Then, however, we, the customers are screwed.

That's why I bought an AMD Turion X2 laptop recently, well knowing that I sacrificed both performance and battery life. Okay, it was also significantly cheaper than the Intel offerings, but that was not my major decision point.