http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/ Engadget Comments for AMD to make "significant corporate announcement" tomorrow, possibly breaking up http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2010 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/
Woohoo. lets party like its 2012!]]>Oct 6th 2008 10:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/Oct 7th 2008 2:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/Oct 6th 2008 10:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/Oct 6th 2008 11:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/Oct 6th 2008 11:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/Oct 7th 2008 12:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/Oct 7th 2008 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/
But it doesnt sound like they're going anywhere, just splitting the manufacturing and R/D to two different companies, it could actually be a better move if they were to partner off...]]>Oct 7th 2008 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/
Wow... almost all of them AMD processors. I hope this means AMD will be in a better position to compete with Intel.]]>Oct 7th 2008 12:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/
The bad news is the manufacturing division may not survive. The point of the split is that division tends to make losses (big enough for a split). Competition with Intel is driving them to constantly update their hardware for the smallest transistors and cheapest techniques (that is, expensive hardware, which tends to be most efficient). This company will treat AMD Design as any other customer (it has its own shareholders to think about). Huge losses means higher manufacturing costs, and potentially larger and costlier processors from AMD. This company needs to really have a good business strategy to save it.

The bad news for AMD is that the only other company with the manufacturing capacity and technology to be competitive with Intel is, well, Intel! In short, the merger means that AMD Design will only be able to have AMD Fabrication as a partner. In essence, they'll be no different from now. The only difference is that AMD Fab is going to drive up costs, now that it has an independent business strategy and no subsidy from AMD Design.]]>Oct 7th 2008 1:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/Oct 7th 2008 1:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/Oct 7th 2008 1:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/Oct 7th 2008 8:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/Oct 6th 2008 10:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/Oct 6th 2008 11:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/
Intel's not invited.]]>Oct 6th 2008 10:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/Oct 6th 2008 11:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/Oct 7th 2008 2:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/
anyway they just cant stop existing..!]]>Oct 6th 2008 10:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/Oct 7th 2008 12:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/Oct 6th 2008 11:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/
(Dig the name btw, good band)]]>Oct 7th 2008 4:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/Oct 7th 2008 11:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122334620497110417.html?mod=googlenews_wsj]]>Oct 6th 2008 11:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/Oct 6th 2008 11:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/Oct 6th 2008 11:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/Oct 6th 2008 11:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/
if any of you seriously are so called "reading" this is a demise of AMD then you are truly stupid and seriously illiterate.

In case if your numb mouse finger can't click that far I will post it here:

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Just for some of you chuckheads who are still having a hard time reading through the first paragraph, not understanding what is in the text, or for some of you even more illiterate ignorant fools that still think that this is a case of "intel wins and AMD is dead", here is a more grade 3 level simplified explanation of what is happening to AMD.

"AMD CEO Dirk Meyer explained that the company's fab spinoff means AMD will be able to develop new products without having to invest billions in new chip-making technology and plant capacity. "It will make AMD financially strong and more tightly focused," Meyer said."

Now if you can actually read this and read the entire explanation on AMD's website you can see that this is big. And by that I mean that this is big in a way that Intel, and NV should start becoming scared in the coming years once everything goes into full production. AMD may not have had much resources in the past in perfecting their CPU's and such, now with this whole thing happening they will now have more than adequate resources available at their disposal with companies such as IBM to not only compete with intel, but concentrate even harder on the Fusion, as well as their server/desktop CPU's and having even better ATI Graphics cards. Also once this goes through they will no longer have to worry about huge costs to them on inve$ting a ton of borrowed debt $$ in a new plant or making new chip designs. Without all of that excess overhead they can concentrate on cranking out really great products.

Time will show that having partnerships like this will prove a company to be a lot more cost efficient than having everything in-house.]]>Oct 7th 2008 5:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/

okay maybe the break up is more likely but i still think my announcement would be awesomer]]>Oct 6th 2008 11:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/Oct 7th 2008 12:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/Oct 6th 2008 11:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/
i dont know about you guys, but you get what you pay for...i generally spend more for a better product...]]>Oct 7th 2008 12:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/
For we all know PIVs where the best design ever, right? (Yuck!) Do you know what is even worse than 'cheap and underperforming'? Expensive and underperforming.]]>Oct 7th 2008 12:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/Oct 9th 2008 11:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/
and yes, already got Daft Punk blastin, you bring the beer.]]>Oct 6th 2008 11:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/
Engadget, your comment system is so incredibly buggy. Please work on it.



P.S. BUY BUY BUY!!!!!

P.P.S. AAPL too

P.P.P.S. and pretty much every other tech]]>Oct 6th 2008 11:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/
What was the one thing they did to Wallace's wife in Braveheart? Do that.]]>Oct 6th 2008 11:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/Oct 7th 2008 12:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/Oct 7th 2008 1:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/Oct 7th 2008 2:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/One of the main reasons that Intel is at the top is because some people don't know much about AMD.Not to be rude, but some of the more elderly people are just SO accustomed to Intel (because intel was first), so they don't even want to trust anything but a company whose newer Atom processor does worse than a much older, lower GHz AMD processor...]]>Oct 6th 2008 11:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/Oct 6th 2008 11:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/Oct 7th 2008 12:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/Oct 6th 2008 11:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/
unless IBM decides to do something for consumers (which would probably never happen)]]>Oct 7th 2008 12:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/Jeez, do some of you even read?

This breakup implies that the actual manufacturing and fabrications processes will be in the hands of some spin off entity, whereas the Research and Development (prototypes) of the technologies will still be existent at the core of AMD as we know it.

]]>Oct 6th 2008 11:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/
With AMD in control of the fabs, they could respond quickly to fix problems there. Without the fabs, they are dependent on the competence of others.]]>Oct 7th 2008 12:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/06/amd-to-make-significant-corporate-announcement-tomorrow-possi/
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