Intel layoffs: More seismic changes to come

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by Commander Wallace

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the deeper infiltration of AMD chips into the mainstream market. I'm thinking it was Rockstar who had said they built a computer with an AMD board along with the accompanying AMD chip that in this case was a 6 core 3.5 GHZ unit. I remember it being said in this forum that it was working very well. If this wasn't Rockstar who built this, my apologies for getting that wrong.

Although Intel are better suited for different tasks than AMD chips, both have their strengths and for the basic user, those lines are very blurred. It seems Intel overly priced their chips and for a great number of users, AMD is a cost effective and attractive alternative to higher priced Intel chips.

AMD has not made a profit in 4 years.

But this week, their stock jumped 50%+, they have a deal going with China to supply CPUs for their upcoming server industry.