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AMD Withdraws From High-Density Server Business
An anonymous reader sends word that AMD has pulled out of the market for high-density servers. "AMD has pulled out of the market for high-density servers, reversing a strategy it embarked on three years ago with its acquisition of SeaMicro. AMD delivered the news Thursday as it announced financial results for the quarter. Its revenue slumped 26 percent from this time last year to $1.03 billion, and its net loss increased to $180 million, the company said. AMD paid $334 million to buy SeaMicro, which developed a new type of high-density server aimed at large-scale cloud and Internet service providers."
Sadly, I don't see an "out" for AMD. Their x86/amd64 chips don't perform as well as Intel's. The ARM market is saturated. They don't have their own foundry.
What does modern day AMD bring to the table that anyone wants? Even at cut-rate pricing, they've saturated their channels with chips and can't even manufacture and ship new inventory until the backlog clears.
It's a shame, but I think they're on their last legs. :(
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Meh.. this meme has been copy & pasted onto Slashdot over & over again since the 90s.
Guess what:
1. I can tell you exactly how much Intel chips will cost if AMD is noncompetitive or goes away entirely... they'll cost exactly what they cost now because AMD is already effectively out of the game.
People forget that Intel is not only in heavy competition with ARM, but Intel is in perpetual competition with its own parts from last year and if Intel really jacks up prices they will simply lose business from people who don't upgrade.
2. You have a very selective memory when it comes to history. In the brief periods of time when AMD really had some form of a performance lead over the Pentium 4, their chip prices were as high or even higher than what Intel charges for its extreme premium parts now. FX-62 for over $1000... I'm looking at you.
AMD isn't some angel, it just doesn't have the opportunity to be the big dog very often. Additionally, even when AMD isn't the top dog they've charged whackjob insane prices for chips... $900 FX-9590 launched in 2013 as some sort of bad-joke, I'm looking at you.
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They were even outright leaders for a while, but failed to capitalise on that.
Because if Intel's illegal business practices, for which they didn't receive any criminal sanctions. All they had to do was pay $1e9 to AMD, which is far less than they've profited by it.
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