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AMD Rumored To Announce Layoffs, New Hardware, ARM Servers On Monday
MojoKid writes "After its conference call last week, AMD is jonesing for some positive news to toss investors and is planning a major announcement on Monday to that effect. Rumor suggests that a number of statements may be coming down the pipe, including the scope of the company's layoffs, new CPUs based on Piledriver Opterons, and possibly an ARM server announcement. The latter would be courtesy of AMD's investment in SeaMicro. SeaMicro built its business on ultra-low power servers and their first 64-bit ARMv8 silicon is expected in the very near future. However, there's always a significant lag between chip announcements and actual shipping products. Even if AMD announces Monday, it'd be surprising to see a core debut before the middle of next year."
Why are layoffs announced in the title as a Awesome thing to have? Not sure where these jobs are going to be killed, but the bottom line is that people are going to be out on their ass, some won't find work again, some will lose their homes.. I just don't understand why celebrating layoffs (listing next to two potentially nice things, new products) is something we should be compelled to do.
The SheevaPlug uses a CPU with no FPU, a feature that has been standard on most ARM chips aimed for anything except the ultra low end of the embedded market for quite a few years now. If you're doing image processing using software floating point and expecting even vaguely reasonable performance, then you are an idiot.
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But the only difference that separate Intel and AMD is that Intel had had a vision, and AMD had not.
yes, the vision to screw AMD out of the market by paying off OEMs to not sell AMD chips right when AMD was building several new fabs to meet the capacity the market leader should have needed.
..and before you say it, Intel was *CONVICTED* of this. Its not just some anti-Intel hype.
"His name was James Damore."
Are you high? Ivy Bridge is more power efficient than Piledriver by a significant margin. This has been the case even before Ivy Bridge and Bulldozer. Xeon is used more often than Opteron, face it. Xeon has better performance and power efficiency, which is key when installing hardware for a data center.
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New kid on the block?
They have been making microprocessors since 1975 starting with the 8080.
They didnt just show up one day in the late 90's, they have had processors (among many other products) for every state in the x86 game, besides the fact they are only 10 months "younger" than intel.