AMD bowing out? Says its going mobile...

Burticus said:
Because they can, and they know somebody will buy the stupid things and it's a huge profit margin for them.

I say if AMD wants to keep focusing on Llano/Fusion, whatever, just make the parts available for desktop too if we want them. I don't, but for budget power they are not bad at all.
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Fusion is huge and they'll probably be merging all their desktop parts into an APU design for the future, but that won't come until after Piledriver. I can't wait for the day that a single APU can provide enough power to play a demanding game at 1080p (or whatever the res will be then) without the need for a high end discrete GPU. Frankly, the fusion card is what AMD should be focusing on for well into the future and I guess the modular design of bulldozer actually helps in that respect because, assuming increased performance-per-module-per-watt, they'd be viable for the server space as well. The need for compilers is really what kills it, though.

The enthusiast market spent ~$10billion on parts last year. The enthusiast market is far from dead. The profit margins are higher in the enthusiast market and the advancements that are made there usually trickle down (or in the case of Intel, trickle up as well considering their xeons are essentially the same as SB desktop parts). It is slowing down in terms of growth rate whereas mobile is booming and all-in-one PCs are selling like hotcakes, but there's still a very large pool of $$ to be made there.
 
heatlesssun said:
Huh? Totally not true. A typical desktop is cheaper than a phone or tablet. Plus x86 are the MOST expensive tablets.
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The vast majority of the untapped PC market consists of people who want a cheap, mobile, inexpensive and highly usable computing device and don't really care about its number crunching power as long as it will play angry birds.

That is the sad truth of where the personal computing market is headed. It doesn't matter is x86 is the most expensive big hairy beast and can't compete with ARM or qualcomm or whomever, AMD is seeing dollar signs in this market and that is where most of their efforts will go - because even if they are running on tiny margins, the volume of sales will keep them afloat.

Will there still be a need for desktop PC's? absolutely, but the market is mature, it's saturated and the writing is on the wall for where the next wave of innovation is going to be.

Personally, I hate tablets and laptops but since I don't represent another ten million sales, I don't think anyone's going to listen to me.
 
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