What did I tell you about Price for most PC’s that people buy Intel is the better buy because it costs just as much as a comparable AMD solution. For DIY systems you might be right for most people but not me. It won’t be enough to keep the Iris and Iris Pro series at bay and even Kaveri is going to have a tough time unseat Iris and Iris Pro. Intel has really outdone themselves this time with the IGP.

M$ is as good as DEAD. Metro is a flop the Xbox ONE WILL TANK like no tomorrow and the M$ execs LIKE AMD DON’T KNOW HOW TO RUN A COMPANY. You really really like ARM I wonder why? I somehow doubt that Intel will EVER make ARM CPU’s. There will always be a market for x86 CPU in the near future because all Windows games need x86 and WILL NOT BE PORTED to ARM!!!! x86 is a jack of all trades CPU I don’t think IT’S GOING ANYWHERE just yet!!!! You mean Project Denver set for 2015 release. On servers AMD will have ARM with GPU but for anything else I DON’T THINK SO!!!! Looks like I am in the 1% of people because ARM is not powerful enough for what I want to do. PS2 and GC/Wii Emulation. ARM is NOT powerful enough to emulate those consoles just yet.

You don’t know anything. Intel profits are down 25%, the ARM industry profits are up 2500%, x86 is dead, even Intel is going to be forced to start making ARM processors soon and within 1-2 years after starting Intel ARM, the ARM income and profits for Intel are going to overtake their x86 revenue and profits, this is simply market demand. Sony’s playstation business has NEVER made any profits, rather has made massive losses, Sony’s ARM business is Sony’s only growing business, even Sony is preparing an ARM Android alternative to the PS4 which Sony already knows is going to be way way way more popular and way way way more successful than PS4, Sony’s ARM business is core to Sony’s future. Microsoft’s ARM business is Microsoft’s main focus to try for a comeback. Apple’s ARM business makes up MORE THAN 90% of Apple profits, Apple’s x86 business is in freefall, Intel Atom is a disgrace, Intel Ultrabook is a giant insult, Intel’s massive cloud pollution in the server space needs to be killed off urgently, there is no future for Intel’s x86, Nvidia’s fastest GPUs are soon to work on ARM, same for AMD’s GPUs, all are going to run on ARM just fine within about a year from now, even the best current ARM GPUs are way way way powerful enough to support 99% of consumer’s gaming and productivity demands, basically, you are wrong.

The Richland IGP is apparently about 20% faster than Trinity, which should keep most Haswell systems at bay.

Again, you’re forgetting that Price can be used as a differentiator.

Yep Too bad AMD didn’t beef up their IGP’s when they had the chance NOW they don’t have anything to difference themselves from Intel other than Higher power usage and SUCKY IPC!!!!!

The Wii U is a PPC SoC not an x86 one. The Xbox one will fail but the PS4 will do fairly well. AMD doing ARM is a really bad idea they need to focus on x86 so ARM doesn’t get cocky like they did with A15 which sucks DOWN POWER LIKE CANDY and is UNWORTHY of being in ANY smartphone and big.LITTLE doesn’t change that. Intel IS NOT GOING ANYWHERE!!!!!! Intel Atom will crush Arm’s A15 into the ground in every metric because the A15 is just that bad.

ARM can have as fast a GPU as on x86 and there is ample enough CPU power in ARM to run any of the most advanced games required. It’s not about performance anyways, it’s about being compatible with the future, it’s about being compatible with 2 Billion smartphones, tablets, Set-top-boxes, the only correct way to do that is for the games to interoperate on the same ecosystem, the only dominant future-proof ecosystem is Android ARM powered. AMD must invest as much as possible in that. AMD spin-off Globalfoundries already massively invested in ARM years ago, but AMD should have done the same years ago to destroy Intel Ultrabook, to destroy Intel Atom, to destroy Intel Xenon etc. Nintendo/Sony/Xbox are going to fail simply because it makes no sense to make a $500 home console on incompatible x86 platform, when the future of gaming is on the broad ARM ecosystem. Lots of companies are about to release sub-$100 ARM Android home consoles, and those will totally out-compete anything that Nintendo/Sony/Xbox does on AMD x86, no matter what type of performance those can claim to have. Nobody is going to care. ARM Android can have ample enough performance to run way better than last Wii/PS3/Xbox360, which is way ample enough for 99% of consumers. All game development will be done on the dominant ecosystem.

Yep, the performance of Haswell GT3e will be a rough guide to how games do with a large cache instead of faster memory. I’m very interested to see how it will turn out. Perhaps GT3e will be faster at certain games, I reckon most will favor the GDDR5 though.

The Nvidia Shield is WORTHLESS!!! You can’t do anything of value on a Chromebook you can only watch videos and web surf. No its not the correct path for AMD they need to focus on making x86 competitive with ARM so that I can play games at low power levels. Wrong the best ARM can do is scare Intel and they have done that already the New Intel Atom will cream ARM in almost every aspect.

Wow good one. The PS4 will have GDDR5 shared memory which will crush the Xbox ONE INTO DUST!!!! Kaveri is going to be faster than Intel Haswell GT3e but it will use more power to boot.

ARM is NOT the only ecosystem for gaming. x86 is still here and a lot of good games are on x86 that are NIOT ON ARM. Yeah that might be possible but will it even happen? Wrong ARM is not the right way for AMD. AMD needs to do x86 so that I can play games like borderlands 2 all day long for Games that are not on ARM system. In order to be on consoles of proper scale ARM would have to run at 3Ghz and have huge GPU blocks. ARM is not magic like you seem to think it is.

AMD should have provided Nintendo/Sony/Xbox with ARM Powered ARM Cortex-A15/7 big.LITTLE with most powerful AMD GPU on ARM solution BY NOW. That would have enabled massive success for all of Nintendo/Sony/Xbox, because ARM is the only future ecosystem for gaming, all future games are going to be exclusively on ARM, all compatible with latest smartphones, tablets, Set-top-boxes and a much larger Android home console ecosystem. ARM allows for $99 Home Consoles with ample enough GPU performance being totally possible (there is no reason to limit the GPU performance on home power (not battery power)).

A Chromebook is upwards a good $40 per Chromebook margin for the supplier of the best big.LITTLE ARM processor, same type of margins are possible for ARM servers, a bit less for ARM desktops in the form of HDMI sticks, there is PLENTY of money to be made in the ARM world which is why the largest bulk of worldwide consumer electronics profits happens exclusively in the ARM world, for chip maker and for device makers alike. There’s is nothing wrong with chip makers also making profitable devices, like Nvidia making the Shield, like Samsung making all the Galaxy devices and ARM Chromebooks, AMD should have been there at this point. But AMD is going to be there in 1-2 years which is a bit late but AMD is on the correct path. The path towards massive Intel-destruction, which is what the future of consumer electronics is all about.

The Xbox ONE is very similar to the PS4, whith the main difference being that the Xbox uses on-board cache memory…. Just like Haswell GT3e, so if the xbox is such a piece of shit, that that mean Haswell will be a POS as well?

The Xbox 720 is going tank badly but the PS4 doesn’t so bad. The Wii U sucks EGGS!!!! AMD really didn’t gain much from winning every console because 2 out 3 of them ARE PURE POS!!!!

It’s shrinking, but being in that market gave them access to the console market and that worked out quite nicely for them.

And its a vastly SHRINKING MARKET!!!! AMD is not long for this world!!! AMD’s last foothold Graphics cards is going bye bye and then AMD is gone as well.

Big.LITTLE IS WORTHLESS!!!!! Wrong ARM is one of AMD’s biggest mistakes they need to be focused on very low power x86 but its too late and AMD is now focusing on ARM servers and low power low performance x86 APU and AMD is going to pay for its ignorance BIG TIME!!!! Chromebooks ARE PIECES OF DOG CRAP you can’t do anything but surf they web I need a lot more than that. What are you smoking Charbax You seem to like Chromebooks too much when they can’t do anything worth shit!!!!

Intel controls the x86 ecoaystem and does not allow amd make money in that. There is nothing any AMD CEO could jave done to make more money except to quit the x86 business earlier and to fully focus on Intel-killing ARM for Chromebooks, ARM for servers, ARM for Intel-killing HDMI sticks. By now AMD should have been Samsung biggest alternative in big.LITTLE ARM Cortex-A15/A7. AMD should have been fully marketing Intel-killing $199 ARM-AMD ultrabook-destroyers by now. Not doing ARM 2-3 years earlier is AMD’s only mistake.

They also have their desktop graphics cards, that’s a much bigger market than notebook graphics.

I wouldn’t be so sure about that this changes everything. Now AMD will have to rely on their APU’s to make money.

Discreet notebook graphics are a tiny portion of the market. AMD is ahead of Nvidia in the overall GPU market.

Nvidia has Won Almost all of the Intel Haswell notebook wins. AMD is now limited to high end AMD notebooks which are pure crap.

Sure, higher prices are bad for the consumer, but when Nvidia undercut them they will be forced to cut their prices, you know, competition is good.

Slightly higher Price more like a 20% increase in Price. Of course AMD increases prices to make more money its only logical for them and its NOT a good thing for the consumer.

It’s not about how the other companies “look” it’s mathematics. If AMD can make more money by selling slightly fewer cards at a slightly higher price, then they probably should.

Raising Prices is bad for the consumer and It makes Intel look EVEN BETTER!!!! Everything else you are right on. But by raising GPU prices he makes NVIDIA look like a better choice as well.

Um, do you get it, do you have any idea how long it takes to make CPU’s? Because it sounds like you haven’t got a clue. Hint, it takes years…… yes, years.

Rory because CEO in August 2011, Bulldozer came out in October 2011. What was he going to do, stop the release. By that time, the plans for Piledriver were likely finished as well, so that would have been very hard to reverse.

The Brazos replacement was unnecessary, Intel did nothing with their Atom until recently, so there was no need for a minor update.

The Apple thing is more likely down to Global Foundries, they couldn’t have made enough chips for Apple even if they wanted to, and Rorys predecessor signed some very damaging contracts with GF.

Isn’t making money the goal of any company, if he can raise prices and make more profit, then he’s mad not to.

The proof of Rory will be in what happens over the next year or two. He likely had input on the chips that are starting to come out now, it will be a while before we see how they do.

You DON’T GET IT DO YOU. He made Crapdozer and Shitdriver and the disappointing Richland. He also delayed AMD’s 28nm SoC and a Brazos replacement didn’t come out until now when it should of came out 2 years ago. Llano and Richland both use too much power and under-perform in the CPU department. Rory Read IS THE SOLE reason why AMD APU’s ARE NOT in apple’s notebooks right now. Rory Read is also the reason why AMD is no longer the best value in GPU’s he increased the Prices to make $$$$$ like the greedy fool is he.

All CEO’s have to answer to their board.

In what way has Rory Read failed? He inherited a company in trouble, he changed their direction and made some good hires.

Anyone hired by AMD’s Board is bound to be someone who obeys and listens to the dumb board. How is Rory Read a good CEO? All I seen from him is failure.

It takes years for even a good CEO to turn things around, but from appearances it looks like RR is making some good decisions. Conversely it takes years for the failures of a bad CEO to become apparent, e.g. Hector.

Yeah I have and Rory Read is continuing the AMD Tradition OF FAILURE!!!!!

LOL

Have you even heard of Hector Ruiz?

I Wouldn’t be so sure about that. AMD is doing everything Wrong and it started with Rory Read.

Nah, I heard they are doing fine.

AMD is dead NOT LONG FOR THIS WORLD!!!!

AMD is investing heavily in making ARM Cortex-A57, ARM Cortex-A5 solutions, the Heterogeneous Computing architecture, as for most other things I write, I was correct.

AMD is investing heavily in making ARM processors now. I was fully correct.

I was right. AMD is making ARM Cortex-A57, ARM Cortex-A5 among other.

You just wrote that the dubai investor invested 10 Billion dollars in GlobalFoundries to have just half of it. That Dubai investor and the investors of the other half never previously invested or still own any significant shares in AMD?

No, AMD is continuing to focus on x86. That is where its expertise and market are. It would make no business sense to switch to ARM, and it would take a huge investment and a number of years, and when they finally produced a chip it would face many strong ARM cpu competitors.

I am surprised that you don't understand all this.

GF is half owned by Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC) from Dubai which is investing 10 billion dollars in it. Check out John Oram's various articles on GF and BSN and also the Wikipedia article.

The whole AMD spinning off GlobalFoundries is pretty recent, around a year, and the AMD vs Intel out-of-court settlement is just months old. The investors at AMD probably want to diversify their investments strongly into ARM as they view the X86 market as rigged towards Intel, it's likely what GlobalFoundries new ARM Cortex A9 processor is all about.

There isn't much info out there that I could find to rely on anyways. I find the relation 28nm High-K Gate ARM cortex A9 and GlobalFoundries spinning out of AMD to be interesting, that's all.

I give you a hint. It is not like Pegatron-Asus kind of affair, go figure.

P/S: Do not rely on outdated info.

Do you have more information about how GF was spin-out of AMD? When, how, who went from AMD to GF? How much money did AMD put in GF? Wikipedia says “GlobalFoundries was created by the divestiture of the foundry business of AMD on March 2, 2009, and was expanded through its merger with Chartered Semiconductor on January 13, 2010. Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC) is the largest investor in the company.”

Abu Dhabi's Advanced Technology Investment Co. being the largest investor in GlobalFoundries, were they original investors in AMD or still are? http://www.amd.com/us/press-releases/Pages/Pres…

I think there is nothing wrong in AMD funds diversifying into ARM territory. Especially when the X86 world is so skewed towards Intel.

Spin-off usually means they took a bunch of money from AMD and made GlobalFoundries out of it. But the original owners are the same. Just as Pegatron is a spin-off from Asus. Sometimes it's just another name which they need because of political implications (for example: people starting to think “What? AMD is making ARM processors now?”)

As for the RSS feeds, I will do the same too.

GF is a separate company, the investment is not very heavy (a die shrink), and GF is doing that independently of AMD (which, for examples, fabs its graphics chips with another foundry, and not GF).

I moving your blog off my RSS feeds. Not serious enough. Happy blogging guys.