AMD Selling, Leasing Back Austin Campus to Raise Cash

I hope AMD restructures, and comes back into the game strong again; Intel needs competition.

Who would say a console would bring so much hope to the PC market??
PS4, you need to succeed so that AMD can bring on full badass mode, that is an order

With the upcoming Haswell from Intel looking to be a much more modest step for them, AMD has an opportunity to build up some sales come this summer and fall, and hopefully that will put them in place to do more spending on innovations and improvements on their forthcoming offerings.

DRosencraftWith the upcoming Haswell from Intel looking to be a much more modest step for them, AMD has an opportunity to build up some sales come this summer and fall, and hopefully that will put them in place to do more spending on innovations and improvements on their forthcoming offerings.
Haswell is a modest step???

It's going to have at least 10% better IPC, considerably higher in HT use. IB already rapes anything AMD has out. Hell Core 2 from 2006 still has better IPC than anything AMD has now.

On top of that Haswell will be very energy efficient, and absolutely decimate AMD's Piledriver derivatives in performance/watt. It's so far ahead of anything AMD has, the relative positions of the companies in that sector will remain - Intel getting people who want quality, performance and power efficiency, AMD competing for those who can't afford the best, don't need the best, and can get by with "good enough" since nothing they require would benefit from anything better.

Jaguar will be their opportunity, not vastly inferior higher end chips, which offer no real competition except for the fact Intel wants higher margins, and lets AMD price lower and suffer low margins.

Jaguar is better than anything has in that market.

Let's also keep in mind, it sounds so lofty that they want to lower their investment in non-core assets, etc... The reason is they're piss-poor. They're burning cash, and their credit rating is below junk. They aren't doing this because they want to, they're doing it because they have to. They're going to lose a massive amount of money in the first quarter, and a lot in the second. Let's hope once Jaguar starts hitting its stride they'll stop the burn, and start turning things around, but at the earliest that's the third quarter, and could be later as well.

Paying 10.4M a year in rent sucks, but it beats going out of business. 164M buys them at least a quarter, hopefully more if their cost cutting is working, to get things turned around with Jaguar, and their new video cards. Plus, their new software initiative that they say only works on Richland and Jaguar could make a difference - no one cares about technology except for what it can do, and AMD finally launching applications that take advantage of hardware is a big next step that could give AMD based solutions an edge, despite the disadvantage in CPU technology. It's about time they leveraged their GPU.