AMD staying out of the smartphone chip war, for now.
The smartphone CPU market is one of the fastest growing in the industry, but AMD with all its processor expertise doesn't seem interested in targeting that segment just yet.
AMD CEO Dirk Meyer was asked by Fortune Magazine if the company will compete with ARM.
Meyer replied, "I don't foresee that day coming in the near term, and I'll tell you why. First of all, when we consider which areas to approach, we look at markets, we look at the technology capabilities we have, and we try to find an intersection point that really represents really big opportunities. As I've said, by far the biggest business opportunity we've got is in PCs and servers.
"The market for silicon processing content is bigger than the smartphone market and is going to grow, in revenue terms, frankly faster than the smartphone market. And the other thing we really like about our core market is that there aren't that many competitors versus the cell phone market, where you've got Qualcomm is the big guy, Broadcom getting into the business and a lot of other incumbents that are already scrambling for shares. I'd rather focus on the big market, where there's a small number of competitors."
The main competitors against AMD are Intel and Nvidia. Both Intel and Nvidia are already going after the smartphone market, with the latter pushing its Tegra technology and the former adapting its Atom for smartphone applications. In fact, Intel has already started efforts to make its x86 offering competitive on a power consumption level against the ARM CPUs.
That doesn’t mean, however, that AMD is going to ignore the smartphone market.
"Having said that, I don't think we can ignore in the long term what's going on with mobility, the fact that people's eyeballs are spending more time in front of things like tablets and smartphones," Meyer added. "And we are ensuring that we are developing the technology that will, over time, address these markets. It's not a 'not-ever,' it's just a 'not now' statement."
In any case, GO AMD!!!
what? they've been doling out competition for years, and where they fail at performance, they make up with pricing.
In any case, GO AMD!!!
Hopefully that will make a tasty sh1t sandwich.
the main reason I look at news is for the puns!
what? they've been doling out competition for years, and where they fail at performance, they make up with pricing.
AMD has more expensive, less energy efficient, and slower CPUs than ARM in the smart phone market...
The only thing AMD is good for is to just make sure that Intel is not the only one in the market, and prevent a further price climb, other than that, their tech is useless. Their 12 cores are worse in HPC than 6 of intel's i7 cores.
Pics or it didn't happen. In other words, cite you statistics instead of spewing out that drivel.
Everything I have read says that the Opteron 12 core, is marginally faster at HPC than the Xeon. Given the fact that I can get the Opteron for less money, and add more RAM to it for approximately the same price as the Xeon, your statement, sir, is idiotic.
Give AMD props for sticking by what they do best. They say they aren't going to compete right now.