FUCK. AMD drifts away from the Desktop market

[Osme]

They really wont be able to raise prices for a few years after this, since AMD CPUS will get the job done still for a lower price. Hopefully AMD comes back with competition. I would still stick with Intel but if AMD were gone... Prices would go up and Intel would have no real need for developing new CPUS.

[Cake Faice]

Well in the future I'm not going to buy another AMD graphics card since they have too many issues with drivers, so I won't need to worry about the GPU market, but the CPU market...oh dears.

[Supertoaster]

If Intel has no competition, they will have no need to make faster CPU's. Then so ends the electronic revolution.


Then suddenly, Nvidia?

http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/05/nvidia-announces-project-denver-arm-cpu-for-the-desktop/


inb4yearold

[coolzeldad]

Well, if you read the actual AMD press release, they were saying that their sole goal is not to compete with Intel. (Don't have link atm)

However, they clarified saying that they will still be in the market, just not for competition as the sole purpose.

Kinda odd press statement to make in the first place, imo.

Here's source that updated etc.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-Not-Competing-With-Intel-Anymore-Goes-Mobile-237103.shtml