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dragmor |
If the US government can bail out your biggest lending organisations, they might as well throw some money to AMD, its about the only thing that will save them.
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asdsa |
Well that sounds bad. People, go and buy some AMD products, now! A CPU as pendant for your pet if you can't think of anything else. :)
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#36, FBCRTM, ICHSIBM.
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evermore |
Psst! Hey, kid! Wanna buy some UV lithography kit? No no, it's cool, it's all legit. We just took it outa the packaging to test it.
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StashTheVampede |
Remember folks: debt is bad.
Debt, without ANY ability to repay, is the WORST situation you could be in. Debt, WITH the ability to pay (over time) isn't the worst possible situation. Plenty of companies live (for years no less) with debt on the books -- they have enough cash coming in to stay afloat and pay back the debt. Besides, how many TR readers actually own the deed to their home (let alone paying 100% up front)? Sure, you're in the hole 5-6-7 figures of mortgage, but you have income and you're paying it down, right? |
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greeny |
LEts see what happens to AMD financial problems in another 6 months or so, they got better cpus due out they just got the best VFM gpu out and they have nice cheap motherboards, my guess is that most people who buy computers dont want to invest their life savings into one, which means a nice cheap AMD solution is order of the day.
I think ATI was a quality decision from AMD it was never gonna be an instant success but they are getting there slowly. |
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herothezero |
#9, I'm sure the people that worked hard on those projects, disagree...
They can disagree all they want, but if their divisions aren't performing they shouldn't have their jobs--AMD isn't a welfare program. |
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derFunkenstein |
Time to axe the stuff that doesn't perform.
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TurtlePerson2 |
Check any balance sheet of any Fortune 500 company, except for a few, and you'll find debt (it's called liabilities). This probably isn't a good thing for AMD to be doing, but they don't have much of a choice. They're finally turning the corner with ATI and if they can get some decent CPUs out there then things will be looking good for them. I might purchase some AMD stock if it approaches $4.50.
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l33t-g4m3r |
they might want to call the debt consolidation hotline.
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poulpy |
Just when you thought they'd catch a break with the awesome HD48xx, Puma and the revised Phenom..
Intelligent technological move that allows them to offer a full platform, GPGPUs and -later- merge them onto the CPU but oh so costly.. We can't afford a monopoly so you just have to hope they'll manage to go through it. |
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bogbox |
AMD is in having financial problems. What's new? if you look at there history , is nothing new.
Firing people ? Everyone does that in this days.Even Intel fired some people when AMD was strong. ATI was a smart move , and even now is ,with the 4800 ,you see the result. AMD paid too much for ATI, is true, fire the people how negotiate the merger. Look at MS how far is going to go for Yahoo merger , and MS has tons of money to buy every one. |
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JustAnEngineer |
I believe this showed up in the shortbread over the weekend. AMD has now written down about 40% of what they (over)paid for ATI. The huge amount of money that they borrowed for the purchase is a heavy debt burden.
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