AMD Confirms Commitment To x86

MrSeb writes with an excerpt from an Extreme Tech story on the recent wild speculation about AMD abandoning x86: "Recent subpar CPU launches and product cancellations have left AMD in an ugly position, but reports that the company is preparing to jettison its x86 business are greatly exaggerated and wildly off base. Yesterday, Mercury News ran a report on AMD's struggles to reinvent itself and included this quote from company spokesperson Mike Silverman: 'We're at an inflection point. We will all need to let go of the old 'AMD versus Intel' mind-set, because it won't be about that anymore.' When we contacted Silverman, he confirmed that the original statement has been taken somewhat out of context and provided additional clarification. 'AMD is a leader in x86 microprocessor design, and we remain committed to the x86 market. Our strategy is to accelerate our growth by taking advantage of our design capabilities to deliver a breadth of products that best align with broader industry shifts toward low power, emerging markets and the cloud.' The larger truth behind Silverman's statement is that no matter what AMD does, it's not going to be 'AMD versus Intel' anymore — it's going to be AMD vs. Qualcomm, TI, Nvidia, and Intel."

Re:Am I the onlyone...

[masternerdguy]

An inflection point is when the second derivative of a curve is zero, and is generally where a curve changes from concave down to concave up. I'm assuming the guy was talking about a profit over time curve or something.

Re:Am I missing something here?

[JDG1980]

When people say "x86" they usually include the 64-bit extensions in this category. Every x86 CPU made today, whether from Intel, AMD, or even Via, supports the AMD64 extensions.

Re:Dear AMD....

[0123456]

There are lots of us that actually do real computing that has really heavy math.

So shouldn't you be using SSE instructions rather than x87?

Re:Translation

[macromorgan]

AMD SHOULD have gained huge amounts of market share, but thanks to some anti-competitive behavior by Intel that wasn't the case.