hope this bodes well for AMD to stay "at the edge" of doing the best possible products they can at a fair price to the end consumer (unlike their main competitors clawing things away or doing stupid moves but jumping the price every generation for not much gained on an even less costly to produce product that now sells for an even higher price)
Here is hoping Zen 2 (the actual one, not the poorly named/marketed Ryzen+/Ryzen 2xxx chips) end up being awesome and are matched with equally awesome Polaris/Vga refreshes.
AMD has had awesome momentum the last 2 years (after barely making ends meet the past decade) I earnestly hope and wish they continue on this direction forcing competitors to follow suit or be buried in the process...
too long there was little choice of pay a bunch extra for "not much" generation to generation, they had some key releases (example Phenom II, Radeon HD 4xxx, Radeon HD 5xxx, Radeon HD 7xxx) but they lost the focus like they did with Athlon generation (had a very good lead and sat on their laurels instead of keeping the ball rolling)
They have solid leader ship now (Lisa Su, and her team that has stayed or she helped to assemble) now is time to make sure they keep that ball rolling.
I know they "pushed up" the launch of Vega refresh a quarter or so, would be nice to see them do this with Polaris refresh (likely to be called RX 6xx) as well as Zen 2 (7nm) and maybe even Navi..here is also hoping TSMC is able to produce enough wafers to keep everyone with the wafer/chips they need at a reasonable price so folks that have been waiting for awhile (example GPU) can finally get them at a much more affordable price compared to the greed pricing that has been as of late.
"hope this bodes well for AMD to stay "at the edge" of doing the best possible products they can at a fair price to the end consumer (unlike their main competitors clawing things away or doing stupid moves but jumping the price every generation for not much gained on an even less costly to produce product that now sells for an even higher price)"
Yes, sure. The continued brain drain will mean their "best possible products" are worse than their competitors and so they will sell them at a "fair price".
Let's hope they can execute better than the last time an Intel misstep coincided with a promising AMD CPU architecture. They are still working to gain trust back due to that prior fiasco. They probably have 2 years at most before Intel comes out with an updated CPU architecture and sorts out their manufacturing woes.
"the last time an Intel misstep coincided with a promising AMD CPU architecture" was when AMD came out with Athlon64. that was 2003 and it was a smashing success... except for some not very legal moves from Intel.
The last time AMD had a (proper) fiasco was Bulldozer and that was right around the time Intel was at the peak of power, far from any misstep (Sandy Bridge times).
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Dragonstongue - Monday, August 27, 2018 - link
hope this bodes well for AMD to stay "at the edge" of doing the best possible products they can at a fair price to the end consumer (unlike their main competitors clawing things away or doing stupid moves but jumping the price every generation for not much gained on an even less costly to produce product that now sells for an even higher price)Here is hoping Zen 2 (the actual one, not the poorly named/marketed Ryzen+/Ryzen 2xxx chips) end up being awesome and are matched with equally awesome Polaris/Vga refreshes.
AMD has had awesome momentum the last 2 years (after barely making ends meet the past decade) I earnestly hope and wish they continue on this direction forcing competitors to follow suit or be buried in the process...
too long there was little choice of pay a bunch extra for "not much" generation to generation, they had some key releases (example Phenom II, Radeon HD 4xxx, Radeon HD 5xxx, Radeon HD 7xxx) but they lost the focus like they did with Athlon generation (had a very good lead and sat on their laurels instead of keeping the ball rolling)
They have solid leader ship now (Lisa Su, and her team that has stayed or she helped to assemble) now is time to make sure they keep that ball rolling.
I know they "pushed up" the launch of Vega refresh a quarter or so, would be nice to see them do this with Polaris refresh (likely to be called RX 6xx) as well as Zen 2 (7nm) and maybe even Navi..here is also hoping TSMC is able to produce enough wafers to keep everyone with the wafer/chips they need at a reasonable price so folks that have been waiting for awhile (example GPU) can finally get them at a much more affordable price compared to the greed pricing that has been as of late.
^.^
Yojimbo - Tuesday, August 28, 2018 - link
"hope this bodes well for AMD to stay "at the edge" of doing the best possible products they can at a fair price to the end consumer (unlike their main competitors clawing things away or doing stupid moves but jumping the price every generation for not much gained on an even less costly to produce product that now sells for an even higher price)"Yes, sure. The continued brain drain will mean their "best possible products" are worse than their competitors and so they will sell them at a "fair price".
Let's hope they can execute better than the last time an Intel misstep coincided with a promising AMD CPU architecture. They are still working to gain trust back due to that prior fiasco. They probably have 2 years at most before Intel comes out with an updated CPU architecture and sorts out their manufacturing woes.
close - Tuesday, August 28, 2018 - link
"the last time an Intel misstep coincided with a promising AMD CPU architecture" was when AMD came out with Athlon64. that was 2003 and it was a smashing success... except for some not very legal moves from Intel.The last time AMD had a (proper) fiasco was Bulldozer and that was right around the time Intel was at the peak of power, far from any misstep (Sandy Bridge times).
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I don't like to see eveyone jumping ship...maryo11 - Tuesday, September 11, 2018 - link
Great, now another setback for AMD. How will they survive? This is not looking good for the ones with AMD stocks. https://itsquickpayportal.com/