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0 pointsLev1a8y ago0 comments

> AMD is deeply mismanaged and shareholders should lobby for change

I don't know about that... Sure they've had to liquidate some things but that made them survive long for Ryzen and Vega to come out which has enabled them to claw their way out of the red and into the black for the first time in forever.

PS: Am I right to assume that by "bad decisions" you mean things like the "Bulldozer" architecture with that wonky resources-shared-between-cores-thing?

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dave_sullivan8y ago

By "bad decisions" I mean they completely overlooked the enterprise market and machine learning when it should have been obvious. Ryzen and Vega have such small profit margins compared to Nvidia's enterprise lineup. And that's their other problem: they keep chasing low value markets. AMD's life in the black will be short lived. Maybe Intel will just end up buying them, but then what's in it for intel?

Lev1aOP8y ago

Intel most likely would not be allowed to buy AMD, something something monopoly, although a real lawyer could probably tell you more.

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