AMD sees revenue below Wall Street view

Lower prices, lower unit sales took toll, prompting chipmaker to warn that revenue will be about 20 percent below forecasts.

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[fred dunn]

AMD is becoming stagnant in research....

AMD Athlon64 was a major innovation against it's counterpart at the time (Pentium4) but with Intel's release of it's Core 2 architecture the only advantages that AMD holds right now are the integrated Memory controller and HyperTransport, but Intel has plans to integrate both of those in future products.
Aside from their upcoming fusion products this is a major turning point in whether AMD survives as a Desktop Processor provider. Their Opteron Products still can't be beat but unless they make a major overhaul of the desktop line we will see AMD's percentage of the desktop market shrink back to what it was 5 years ago.
Wake up AMD!
I am a major AMD fan from way back but if they put out a desktop processor that will match or beat the core 2 then I am afraid AMD will just be a part of my past.

[Dragon Forge]

Just deserts - expect it to continue

amd is just a flash in the pan. Having more than just a couple of gaming rigs, Intel has always been the most solid and better performer in real world analysis. This goes wiothout saying that on the business floor the same is absolutely 100% true. Despite the huge waves of paid-for-periodical-performance-posts, this has always been so.

I had been preparing policy reviews making the case for ensuring that requisitioning and acquisition policies and procedures were always reviewed for even handedness for a federal government. With the huge anmount of research including the real world models in my own labs I did submit the facts that clearly indicated that amd is definitely NOT rdy for business prime time, nor did it do well in the entertainment department.

In tow and predictably, ati has been encumbered with the amd business model and the quality of the products has declined.

In conjunction with all this is the almost arrogant, and certainly not customer oriented, support mechanisms. There are issues STILL with amd ati that they have made noises about resolving, but done absolutely nothing about.

Please be well advised that the marketing game is just a lot of paid for nonsense and which leaves out crucial aspects in order to skew the unsuspecting chiefs and captains awarenesses of these products. Resolving these hardware and software misinformations is what I have been doing for 10 years and for an IT Investigator it provides a huge amount of work.

Business leaders alwasy want to hear "yes, it can be done" because some idiot watched a tv report or read something somewhere. Usually, it can be done but these markets are set up to obscure the monumental myriads of incremental costs in initiation and ownership. I'm the the guy that makes the presentations of the last 18 months hype and tell them what they are in for.

amd is most suredly headed down and the watch is on ati. No one I know has bought into amd nor ati in quite some time.

[hack311]

AMD

AMD has made tremendous strides and it's amazing how well they have done, but I will agree that if they cannot innovate they will lose their market. AMD is still a great option for a cost effective processor and I am currently running a Dual Core Opteron 170 processor and it's fantastic. I built my first computer with an AMD-K7 and have stuck with AMD since, it'll be odd if I have to switch to INTEL for performance. Ive always stuck with NVIDIA for graphics so I am not worried for ATI.