Yeah, good luck guys. 14nm "Airmont" based micro-server parts from above and 14nm "Broadwell" micro-server parts...also from above...would like to have a word with you ;)
Besides the small wireless SRAM market, the fastest growing wireless communications IC market in 2012 was the MPU segment, which includes cellphone application processors.
With strong growth in the smartphone portion of the cellphone market, booming sales of stand-alone application processors from companies such as Qualcomm and Broadcom are expected to drive the wireless MPU communications IC market to $16.8 billion in 2013, more than triple its size in 2009.
The CPU is standard licensed ARM IP. I wonder why AMD thinks it can make money here when they can't as a partner in a duopoly of the most valuable IC franchise in history, x86 processors.
In x86 land AMD just has to compete with Intel, a company that likes its margins. In ARM land AMD is competing with dozens of hungry start-ups and eager major semicos wanting to move into computing land. Those guys will cut margins to the bone to make a sale. Is it better to swim with a single great white shark to keep an eye on or in the midst of a school of piranha?