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AMD Finds Itself in Financial Peril [message #81338]

Fri, 09 March 2007 15:39

excelav

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Registered: July 2005
Location: Metro Detroit

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http://apnews.excite.com/article/20070309/D8NORU800.html

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Re: AMD Finds Itself in Financial Peril [message #81370 is a reply to message #81338]

Sat, 10 March 2007 09:14

LaMont
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Registered: October 2005

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I think they will be ok. With that new quad core chip coming out and with
Apple stating that they will use it in their X-server, as well as DELL &
IBM will only faten the pockects of the company.

P.S. The new Quad core will be 43 percent faster than than the current woodcrest
INTEL Quad core. Utilizing advance Floating point processing . Which we al
know , mens great native Plugin number crunching. Which has always been AMDs
claim to fame.

"James McCloskey" <excelsm@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>http://apnews.excite.com/article/20070309/D8NORU800.html

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Re: AMD Finds Itself in Financial Peril [message #81401 is a reply to message #81370]

Mon, 12 March 2007 05:16

TCB
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Registered: July 2007

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I think a bigger worry is some sharky private equity firm coming in and screwing
things up. AMD has made money for years fighting against a company _at least_
as monopolistic as M$oft, probably much more so. In the highly cyclical semiconductor
business they're playing catch up now (hence the massive capital expenditure/R&D
budget), but as you observe that's likely temporary. I can just see KKR deciding
to take them private, slash the R&D, build a ton of cash flow off the one
time bump from the next round of chips, and then selling it back to the market
when from a tech standpoint it's a shell of it's former self but it's shedding
cash. Let's hope that doesn't happen.

TCB

"LaMOnt" <jjdpro@ameritech.net> wrote:
>
>I think they will be ok. With that new quad core chip coming out and with
>Apple stating that they will use it in their X-server, as well as DELL &
>IBM will only faten the pockects of the company.
>
>P.S. The new Quad core will be 43 percent faster than than the current woodcrest
>INTEL Quad core. Utilizing advance Floating point processing . Which we
al
>know , mens great native Plugin number crunching. Which has always been
AMDs
>claim to fame.
>
>"James McCloskey" <excelsm@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>http://apnews.excite.com/article/20070309/D8NORU800.html
>

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