Replies to post #7520 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[yourbankruptcy]

Chipguy, chicken and egg problem. AMD need to sell 150,000 Opterons per quarter to be deeply in green. Should I say "only" or "as much as"?

I think at this moment universities can soak 100K and maybe high-performance computing clusters another 50K. Those don't need multy-year commitment. If AMD will show profit twice in a row, regular business orders should come, I hope.

[greg s]

re: From a company that has lost money, what, the last eight quarters straight

Closer to 12 quarters (since 6/2000)

re: and whose debt is junk status?

Closer to sub-junk. It was downgraded to junk on 10/7/2002

#msg-527121

Then placed under review on 5/7/2003 for possible downgrade based on concern that continued cash burn may lead AMD to raise another round of capital over the near to intermediate term.

#msg-983760

[UpNDown]

chipguy, re AMD64 as stable platform

I wrote: "You missed the most important advantage of Athlon-64. It provides a 64-bit binary architecture that
should be stable for a decade or more."

You wrote: "ROFLMAO!"

You can roll on the floor all you want. I stand by my statement. In fact, I'm here to tell you that I don't see a single consumer-/small-business-level binary architecture that will have a longer longevity than AMD64. Not Pentium 4. Not Itanium. Not any IBM Power computer. Not HPPA. Not Alpha. Not UltraSparc.

Now you know why the Linux leaders are so enamoured of it. A capable achitecture for the next decade.