AMD looking for Government stimulus money
IT SEEMS THAT AMD had a cunning plan when it said it will release its six-core Opteron chip in June ahead of schedule.
Its latest roadmap containing a chip code-named Magny-Cours that will ship in eight- and 12-core models with a 16-core chip planned in 2011 is a jolly aggressive strategy for a company with no cash.
However word on the street is that AMD is looking to government stimulus money to make its plans happen. Having products to show right now helps, apparently.
Nathan Brookwood, an analyst at Insight64 in Saratoga told PC World that AMD is trying to get ahead of Intel's Nehalem EX by pushing out its six-core 'Istanbul' chip five months head of schedule.
According to PC World, AMD will go to Washington to ask for cash to help build such advanced chips. Thus AMD hopes to get the US government to pay for development as it struggles to compete against Chipzilla.
Of course there is a downside to this cunning plan in that AMD is being floated on Arab money and those particular contacts became less popular when the White House changed ownership. µ
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Reading comprehension FAIL.
Nowhere in the PCWorld article does it say that AMD is going to ask for money from the government. What it does say is that the stimulus will prod entities like national labs, government agencies and tech companies to continue with technology spending.
AMD is simply doing what it should -- it sees government-stimulated demand for microprocessors, so it does its best to position itself as the better choice to fulfill that demand.
Hey AMD want a better market share? BUILD THE BETTER CHIP!
Y'all had me with the dual core Operons. Lost me when it came time for me to go quad as you were too busy playing with ATI, (The stupidest choice you've ever made)To have "working" quads on the streets. Now y'all are screwed. IMHO, Intel STILL has the better chips, But you could save yourselves as far as I'm concered cause it's going to take a lot more to get me to upgrade from my current quads. Big bucks for minimal improvement right now. Oooo look six power hungry heat producing processors. Whooptie-doo. Less than a handfull of software choices that will even know how to make use of them all, and you haven't even got your quads right yet. How's about a processor that runs over 3ghz with enough on die memory (Couple gig?)to actually load up and do the work without having to keep going back to the slower RAM for info.
Chrystler, GM, and a couple other companies are already on my "don't buy from cause they already got my money" list. Go ahead, add yourselves to that list. Intel will love ya for it.
AMD needs to get a decent chip. The fact is when the Conroe Chips first appeared AMD didn't have an answer to them and they still don't for the I7. They offer entry level chips thats it, and yes you have to overclock those chips.
Please point out the comment in the PC World story that stated AMD was going to Washington to ask for money. A complete fabrication. In fact it stated that Intel was in Washington "selling it's chips".. and I can imagine lobbying for more money to be invested in the Tech sector. I'd ask you to check your facts next time and actually read...except you're only interested in page hits and not journalistic accuracy.
I guess today must be a slow day for news. On a slow day, one must create the news as opposed to merely reporting it. This article and its purported source provide zero proof for their allegation vis-a-vis AMD and their grab at stimulus money. Truer reporting would have been about Intel and their grab although that too would be a stretch.
Can't imagine the US Govt give $$ to a company that is majority owned by an Arab Country... I know Obama is kind of Green behind the ears but i dont think he would go along with giving tax payer money to company that is mostly owned by an oil rich foreign country.
I say they can have the money if they give us 1 MB L2 cache per core again, and remove anything DRM-ish like that unique chip identifier they added years ago.
This is AMD Public Relations responding on behalf of AMD.
The U.S. federal stimulus package brings business opportunities for many tech companies, especially opportunities to win bids to upgrade technology infrastructures within the government, education, energy IT and health IT sectors.
AMD is working with its customers to provide targeted solutions that meet the infrastructure needs of these sectors. With these same customers, AMD will compete to win technology expenditure bids based on the merits of our products and platforms.
Contrary to this report, AMD is not seeking to claim US federal stimulus dollars or other U.S. public funding to subsidize our operations.