Dying AMD - not trolling, really

Is anyone else concerned regarding AMD's business practices? They lost around 850 million dollars last quarter (supposidly limiting cash to around 200 million left - although who really knows, right?). Intel doubled their profits last quarter as compared to 4th qtr 2001. Sun lost around 2 billion dollars. Microsoft actually had enough profits to pay a dividend (instead of just dumping the extra profits back into the company via retained earnings). Are we seeing a Microsoft-Intel completely dominated future? This doesn't look good for anyone except the employees of the two giants (which, by the way, are STILL hiring people during the economic flatline). Any thoughts?

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I think you have to wait until the economy turns north before fully evaluating the situation. I personally think AMD will do just fine. They need to break into the OEM market, like Intel has, to fully realize their potential though.

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So question to ask you is this. Do you think companys will not buy Amd 64 just for it after christmas. Thing is Everyone trying to save money so there going to try for the cheaper chips. So That going to be aiming right at Amd.

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Now what to do??

Well.. only problem with all this is if we go to war, which more than likely is gonna happen. Then our economy will really go down the crapper.

i wouldnt worry about amd they had some 1 time charges and like others already said really lost less im sure this year i bleieve amd was targeting marketshare like General Motors has done in the auto industry.

850 million lose for AMD that important that cut your leg for future project.

Now what to do??

Well, unless they are really long or very costly (in terms of human life). Then it can kind of slow the economy. But this should be speedy (man, of the what 120-150k known soldiers in the middle east, about 65,000 of them are marines!).

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....and there goes another perfectly fine thread, turning slowly into a political debate raging for pages worth....

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Their stocks are not doing well either. I thought the IBM news would have skyrocketed them but they are at a low 6$.

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Actually, if it gets much worse (since IBM and UMC are really supporting AMD's production), IBM might just decide to buy AMD, lol (or let them die -- that's possible too). Kind of cheap for IBM to do a huge stock buyout-takeover (get 51% of the company through stock and put specific people on the board of directors). Let's see, it's about 6 bucks a share (and will probably go lower, but we'll keep it at 6) and based upon the 850 mill loss at 2.50 a share, that's 340 million shares in existance (approx), so 340 * 6.50 (cuz that's a good average - cuz when IBM starts buying stock, the price will go up) is about 2.2 billion dollars. Hmm, i don't know if that's worth it to IBM to have controlling interest in AMD (for a buyout or other means). We'll see...

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