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AMD Loses $1.2 Billion and Its CEO
Barence writes to mention that after seeing almost $1.2 billion in second quarter losses, AMD's CEO has resigned. Stepping up to fill his shoes will be Dirk Meyer, previous company president and COO. "Only two years ago, the company held a processor performance lead and was making serious inroads into Intel's market. However, AMD failed to keep pace with Intel's Core technology, and it once again surrendered its performance crown at the dawn of the multicore era. Those problems were exacerbated by the bungled launch of the Barcelona processors, which prompted Ruiz to make a frank public apology last December."
I didn't even know Intel made graphics cards!
The Intel integrated graphics is Crap. This is well documented. Not only is the hardware somewhat anemic, Intel does not give the engineers time to workaround all the bugs, so the drivers never mature to the state they should be in.
Right now, I am having the best luck with my ATI card in Linux (Compiz) but YMMV. (go figure, I used to like NV better)
It dropped 12% from its high yesterday, which was basically an artificial buildup in the hopes of something good. It is now at $4.6, which is roughly where it was before, I expect it will drop to $4.3 or even under $4 when this news settles. Remember, there is no way to properly value this company, the proper valuation is NEGATIVE because that's what profits are. Thus there is no bottom limit to what the stock will reach, it is only bound by the optimism of the stock's investors.
Qxe4
Well, if you are looking for PURE open source drivers right now, Intel may be your only choice.
If you are looking for something that works, and has OS drivers coming in the future, it is not so cut and dried.
Example, My wife has an dual core Turion, and I have a Core2Duo Centrino.
My Centrino is all sorts of grief in Ubuntu and Mandriva (and Vista). The wife's has been flawless.
Examples?
I cannot play a movie in a 3D desktop, she can.
I have constant problems trying to get wireless drivers to work in mine(native or ndis), I just install or upgrade on hers and it works.
Even in windows, I have a difficult time playing simple 3D games in Vista on the Centrino, so I installed XP. Yes, the Intel engineers seem to to have gotten time to work out the flaws in Vista. (nor will they I hear)
FINALLY! ..they dump his ass.
It may very well be worth negative with all it's assets combined (assets really don't matter to the stock price, because stock holders won't be getting much if the company is liquidated). Are you certain that AMD can turn this ship around? If so, how long will it take? I am hoping they do, and I think they have a good chance, but they are right on the edge.
Qxe4
Exactly right, AMD's Phenom chips get a bad rap from enthusiast sites who overclock and attempt to squeeze every last ounce of performance at the expense of stability and longevity. AMD makes excellent mainstream CPUs, telling Joe computer user to buy Intel over AMD is like telling someone shopping for a family car to buy a Malibu instead of a Camry because performance wise the Corvette beats the crap out of anything Toyota has to offer. The 780g chipset is hands down the best integrated graphics chipset on the market and don't forget that AMD offers the least expensive quad core CPU. AMD needs PR help more than they need the "fastest" CPU on the market
Hmmmm. Good point. Thus, for the purpose of my post, consider 0 to be on a graph of negative infinity, and as the stock price approaches 0, it's value approaches negative infinity. Then we will have said the same thing.
If that doesn't work, use an eigenvector to project it into the Z axis.
My point is, I don't really care. What I originally said is true whether you decide to focus on the wording or on the meaning, it doesn't matter. If all you DO care about is the wording, and not the meaning, then you need to get a life or at least find a better way to communicate with people. Because it is nearly impossible to fit exact meanings into something so imprecise as the English language, and I am certainly not going to put much effort into it on slashdot.
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Qxe4
Lin-sux lost the desktop to OS X, and is now in the process of losing the server to OS X as well. OS X will take over every niche Lin-sux holds simply because it is backed by idiots, and programmed by amateur morons who have no considerations for security, performance, features, usability, etc.
Lin-sux DESERVES to die, and I for one hope that it happens sooner rather than later so that more people can know the true beauty that is OS X.
Think Different. Think Better. Think APPLE!!!!
It's linux, what do you expect.
driver support? LOL