[GRLUG] AMD rumors

[Bob Kline]

If AMD gets out of the x86
business altogether, watch out.

20+ years ago one paid $350, in
the dollars of those days, for a
25MHz 80386.  Intel was merrily
suing everyone in sight to keep
them from making 80X86, and
was quite successful for a while.
The hardware monopoly to
complement M$'s OS monopoly.
AMD had some kind of binding
arrangement that allowed it to
make 80X86 chips, and there
wasn't anything Intel could do
about it. Hence the big drop in
CPU prices.

Today Intel is having its own
problems, as the world shifts to
mobile, and, like M$, Intel is now
finding it has no special edge in
the new world.

But I'd guess it will raise the price
of 80X86 chips plenty again if it
senses people have no alternatives.
Word had it that Intel had 80% profit
margins one the CPUs - read no
competition.

   -- Bob



On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Casey DuBois <casey at grlug.org> wrote:

> Though not formally announced, Semiaccurate seems to have learned
> that AMD is leaving the X86 server business.
>
>
> http://semiaccurate.com/2012/11/19/amd-kills-off-big-cores-kaveri-steamroller-and-excavator/
>
> Casey
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