This article was probably the first time in a couple of years that I have seen the term "Opteron" - I actually paused on spotting that in a slide because the word seemed unfamiliar for a moment.
ARM has done more to lower Intel prices lately than AMD. Not being competitive is almost as bad as not existing. Those GlobalFoundries contracts are going to choke the life out of them tho. They could probably survive on just GPU and licensing Intel x86_64 without that strangle hold.
licensing "Intel x86_64" by which you mean x86 in general. Intel licenses 64-bit x86 from AMD at least in part. Anyhow, they cannot license it without losing.
as I remember AMD earns more selling the AMD64 license to INTEL than selling its own Opteron/Athlon chips. AMD could die If not MS and SONY. AMD and ARM is another deal to stay on the market. Thay just loose the biggest chance to became technological IBM partner. Without IBM thay lost tche chanse to compete agains INTEL and then they decided to sell their technology to INTEL. but how can we explain 2003-2008 when AMD dominates ovet Intel in any technological aspect and could not takeover the market. they reach the level 10% of Market. Intel Pentium IV was a piece of crap and sell like fresh breat. AMD still sell the same genius Opteron. But they make no improvement in the techbology for last 7 Years. Intel is the king again. AMD two brilliant technologies - AMD64 and memory controller biuld into CPU...
As a previous owner of a dual socket opteron system (back before core duo or multi core Athlon x2's), a Athlon 1400 and a low power Athlon x2, I'm getting excited they're giving this a go!
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Ryan Smith - Wednesday, May 6, 2015 - link
In the interest of transparency, one comment has been deleted.ID64818482648: AnandTech is not a political blog.
kyuu - Wednesday, May 6, 2015 - link
Thanks for that, btw. The comments could really use a little more moderation in general to clean up the cruft.CajunArson - Wednesday, May 6, 2015 - link
"Re-Enter" the x86 server market eh?That was probably the most honest statement in the entire presentation.
extide - Wednesday, May 6, 2015 - link
I am excited, I just hope that the Zen CPU release is less underwhelming as the Phenom release was, oh and the Bulldozer release was... :|NZLion - Wednesday, May 6, 2015 - link
This article was probably the first time in a couple of years that I have seen the term "Opteron" - I actually paused on spotting that in a slide because the word seemed unfamiliar for a moment.JumpingJack - Thursday, May 7, 2015 - link
I don't know about you, but man they can sure make great PPT slides.coburn_c - Thursday, May 7, 2015 - link
Hah, 2017... they'll be out of business by then.close - Thursday, May 7, 2015 - link
Unfortunately. Which means even less incentive for Intel to advance or lower prices.coburn_c - Thursday, May 7, 2015 - link
ARM has done more to lower Intel prices lately than AMD. Not being competitive is almost as bad as not existing. Those GlobalFoundries contracts are going to choke the life out of them tho. They could probably survive on just GPU and licensing Intel x86_64 without that strangle hold.testbug00 - Thursday, May 7, 2015 - link
licensing "Intel x86_64" by which you mean x86 in general. Intel licenses 64-bit x86 from AMD at least in part. Anyhow, they cannot license it without losing.dzezik - Monday, March 14, 2016 - link
as I remember AMD earns more selling the AMD64 license to INTEL than selling its own Opteron/Athlon chips. AMD could die If not MS and SONY. AMD and ARM is another deal to stay on the market. Thay just loose the biggest chance to became technological IBM partner. Without IBM thay lost tche chanse to compete agains INTEL and then they decided to sell their technology to INTEL. but how can we explain 2003-2008 when AMD dominates ovet Intel in any technological aspect and could not takeover the market. they reach the level 10% of Market. Intel Pentium IV was a piece of crap and sell like fresh breat. AMD still sell the same genius Opteron. But they make no improvement in the techbology for last 7 Years. Intel is the king again. AMD two brilliant technologies - AMD64 and memory controller biuld into CPU...mdriftmeyer - Wednesday, May 13, 2015 - link
AMD will be financially healthy by then.Oscarcharliezulu - Sunday, May 10, 2015 - link
As a previous owner of a dual socket opteron system (back before core duo or multi core Athlon x2's), a Athlon 1400 and a low power Athlon x2, I'm getting excited they're giving this a go!