When Social Media Attacks: AMD Edition

pretty dang funny, but now I want to know! It better not be something lame like a router. I cant figure out wtf is in the photo.
 
Hey AMD please beat Intel in IPC and price, unlocked octo-core but very low temps and a stock CLC, just lose money and bundle BF4 with it, thanks...
 
I'd love for AMD's CPU's to become competitive again and start another price war. Win-win for us consumers! But that's just a dream that most likely wont happen again any time soon.
 
It's true though. AMD needs to put less effort into flashy advertising and more effort into making CPUs that don't suck.
 
Cmdrmonkey said:
It's true though. AMD needs to put less effort into flashy advertising and more effort into making CPUs that don't suck.
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Because the intern that makes those Facebook posts is also the head of CPU R&D, right?
 
Beowulf said:
pretty dang funny, but now I want to know! It better not be something lame like a router. I cant figure out wtf is in the photo.
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It's a sword hilt, worn on the back of someone wearing power armor (similar to the suits from crysis). Box art for a new graphics card
 
sir-gold said:
It's a sword hilt, worn on the back of someone wearing power armor (similar to the suits from crysis). Box art for a new graphics card
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What? No pictures of some douche bro with spikey hair wearing dark sunglasses with his mouth wide open so we can see inside of it, making one of those fake screams at how excited he is at owning something from the brand itself?
 
Although true, I wouldn't expect a totally unbiased opinion from a dude who goes by SLI Geforce (seriously, look at his name in the pic).
 
... I see somebody hasn't been paying attention to AMD's Google Plus page.
 
Cmdrmonkey said:
It's true though. AMD needs to put less effort into flashy advertising and more effort into making CPUs that don't suck.
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Their CPU's do not suck, Intel's are much better looking as they provide excellent performance at a marginal of the power draw.

Also, how is this flashy advertising? If anything AMD hasn't been about flashy anything since the Athlon64 days. Another point is the advertising team has zero to do with the development of the processor.
 
Trimlock said:
Their CPU's do not suck, Intel's are much better looking as they provide excellent performance at a marginal of the power draw.

Also, how is this flashy advertising? If anything AMD hasn't been about flashy anything since the Athlon64 days. Another point is the advertising team has zero to do with the development of the processor.
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One of the reasons why AMD is taking it in the shorts. Their product lines are shoddy, their brand has taken a beating, and their offerings just aren't that great. If anything, there advertising has been dismal and the less eyeballs they get the worse their revenue streams will be. You can only sustain yourself on the fanboi train for so long.
 
Methadras said:
One of the reasons why AMD is taking it in the shorts. Their product lines are shoddy, their brand has taken a beating, and their offerings just aren't that great. If anything, there advertising has been dismal and the less eyeballs they get the worse their revenue streams will be. You can only sustain yourself on the fanboi train for so long.
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Brand? When has AMD had a 'brand'? Outside of forums like these they are virtually unknown.

Intel has a brand, Budwieser has a brand. AMD has bupkiss!

And as for advertising......where?

AMD constantly moans about its lack of market share but it never puts any effort into marketing. I spent a few bucks on business ad in my local paper a few weeks ago. Thats more advertising and marketing than AMD have done in the past five years.
 
Beowulf said:
pretty dang funny, but now I want to know! It better not be something lame like a router. I cant figure out wtf is in the photo.
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possibly 18" long or so, couple inches wide, has some different looking material on the end, has holes in the main body...

USB powered keyboard wrist rest with fan, rubber bits on the ends to hold it still.

If that's true... then AMD needs to drop the BS and get a decent CPU out the door instead of dicking around with lame "gamer" accessories.
 
AceCR42 said:
Because the intern that makes those Facebook posts is also the head of CPU R&D, right?
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I've worked for a lot of public affairs departments and most companies do take note, that's what they're therefore. That days bad press (News, social media) get's put into an email and sent to the vp who shows to the ceo who does what he thinks best.
 
The way to turn AMD around. Restructure, rename, re-brand themselves. Put money into advertising, get at least somewhat competitive with intel while offering a better price like they used to be. Use the money from next gen console deals to fund it, rename the company to alien micro devices upon launch of next gen consoles with a badge on console with a decent logo or an etching or imprint. This not only introduces them into the young console buyers but also since the next gen consoles are supposed to be "Home entertainment systems" also gets them into the mind of the average person. Piggy back on the next gen console ads as well. Should be back in business with cash to spare.
 
daglesj said:
Brand? When has AMD had a 'brand'? Outside of forums like these they are virtually unknown.

Intel has a brand, Budwieser has a brand. AMD has bupkiss!

And as for advertising......where?

AMD constantly moans about its lack of market share but it never puts any effort into marketing. I spent a few bucks on business ad in my local paper a few weeks ago. Thats more advertising and marketing than AMD have done in the past five years.
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Wasn't one of the first things AMD did during restructuring a few years ago was eliminate basically the entire marketing department? That would explain your analogy.
 
Phoenix333 said:
False. The money wasted on stupid advertising could be allocated to CPU R&D.
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Again. That is what they did when they killed the marketing department. That advertisement cost next to nothing. A graphic designer being paid $14/hour spent maybe 8 hours creating it and they posted it online ("free").
 
I think AMD's doing the right thing and not competing with Intel directly, instead concentrating efforts in areas where they could carve out their own niche. They just don't have the budget or resources to do it, Intel's R&D budget alone is bigger than AMD's entire revenue.

The x86 monopoly might be challenged instead by ARM in the low end, and maybe in the future it'll crawl its way to the midrange if things go well, at least in the market the open nature of the architecture and fierce competition keeps prices low and progress more rapid with so many players involved.
 
Wierdo said:
I think AMD's doing the right thing and not competing with Intel directly, instead concentrating efforts in areas where they could carve out their own niche. They just don't have the budget or resources to do it, Intel's R&D budget alone is bigger than AMD's entire revenue.

The x86 monopoly might be challenged instead by ARM in the low end, and maybe in the future it'll crawl its way to the mid range if things go well, at least in the market the open nature of the architecture and fierce competition keeps prices low and progress more rapid with so many players involved.
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I wonder if this recent popularity of ARM might lead AMD into abandoning x86 entirely and becoming an ARM licensee instead, applying their current multitasking and graphics technologies towards pocket-sized desktop-equivalent PCs (just add docking station) sidestepping the AMD-Intel war entirely. The whole reason AMD bought ATI was to merge CPU and GPU technologies, and handheld "PCs" are the best market for this. AMD might be small compared to Intel, but they could be a major player in the ARM space if they wanted to be.
 
Wierdo said:
I think AMD's doing the right thing and not competing with Intel directly, instead concentrating efforts in areas where they could carve out their own niche.
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No company who's ever tried this has ever succeeded. They've all went bankrupt and under. Usually some other more successful company will buy them up and do nothing with them.
The x86 monopoly might be challenged instead by ARM in the low end, and maybe in the future it'll crawl its way to the midrange if things go well, at least in the market the open nature of the architecture and fierce competition keeps prices low and progress more rapid with so many players involved.
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What the market needs is AMD to get their engineers working on something big. It really isn't AMD's fault for where they are now. Remember the Athlon XP and Athlon 64 were far more powerful then anything Intel had at the time, but could never penetrate a market dominated by Intel.

Through that, AMD never made the money they expected and could never get the R&D budget needed to make something competitive with Intel. ARM may not be a bad idea to work on as well, but x86 should be AMD's focus. ARM chips should be nothing more then engineering exercise their engineers. If they're smart, they'll make ARM chips that'll work on existing motherboards. Rather then trying to penetrate a market that's already saturated with ARM competitors.
 
Phoenix333 said:
False. The money wasted on stupid advertising could be allocated to CPU R&D.
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This is false, an un advertised product is a failed product. Plus amd is using mediums that are damn near free.

You can't live in a world where every dime goes to r&d, why do you think companies such as samsung do so well?
 
AMD has already abandoned the PC space.

They maintain a niche dominance in the A-series fully integrated boards. And those are... of limited use. One of the "best" experiences I have had recently with an AMD desktop was trying to install a graphics card in a new computer for a customer and finding out the AMD UEFI BIOS implementation was so bad that many current graphics cards would not initialize properly without a couple of really odd tweaks to the BIOS.

The other was a WoW player who spent big bucks on a new rig with an 8 core AMD because his friends told him it would rock... only to find out that the AMD was about 40% slower than an i5 quad in WoW. In fact, it can't even beat an obsolete i5-750 in WoW.

Spectacular. Because the average person has any hope of understanding how these CPUs can be this much different from each other? And their marketing literature is SOOOO helpful in making sure Mr. Average Joe doesn't make a horrible choice like this?
 
To that comment under the picture, I say Amen brotha. AMEN. One day before I die, I would like to see AMD back on top of the desktop CPU performance heap. I can see myself on my deathbed, whispering about how I still long to see such a day come to pass, right before I leave this life. I joke about it now, but it better not fuckin' come true. Cuz usually the shit I want to happen, doesn't happen. Maybe that's the reason. Maybe I'm the one screwing over AMD. My bad.
 
Unless you are teh one who's creating the technologies for rival companies, you aren't screwing them over. No company should be able to expect you to buy their stuff just because they are competition. No one should be expected to bet on a 2 legged horse, when there is a perfectly healthy one next to it in the race.
 
Advil said:
The other was a WoW player who spent big bucks on a new rig with an 8 core AMD because his friends told him it would rock... only to find out that the AMD was about 40% slower than an i5 quad in WoW. In fact, it can't even beat an obsolete i5-750 in WoW.
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I smell a troll. The 8320/8350 (and even the older bulldozer chips) bench nearly identically to an i73770k in WoW @ 1080p+ resolutions. Even at lower resolutions the average FPS is still too high to matter.
 
DeathFromBelow said:
I smell a troll. The 8320/8350 (and even the older bulldozer chips) bench nearly identically to an i73770k in WoW @ 1080p+ resolutions. Even at lower resolutions the average FPS is still too high to matter.
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Indeed if someone built a 83xx rig and was getting less than 30FPS at least, then they did a piss poor job of putting it together.

Or maybe they just installed a HD6450 to compliment it.:D
 
Haha! "Gaming combat" and "always ready for war" show they pretty much think people who play video games are all stupid teenage to 20-something boys who are the only ones who take gaming seriously enough to identify with that sort of statement.
 
Trimlock said:
why do you think companies such as samsung do so well?
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Samsung is successful because it is the single largest corporation in South Korea (%17 of GDP), and basically bullies the government into getting whatever it wants.
 
CreepyUncleGoogle said:
Haha! "Gaming combat" and "always ready for war" show they pretty much think people who play video games are all stupid teenage to 20-something boys who are the only ones who take gaming seriously enough to identify with that sort of statement.
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Well when you look at a lot of the posts you see from folks here you have to wonder.......

They might be right.
 
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