AMD's desktop Kabini APUs to sell for as low as $31

It took AMD six months of well qualified applicants turning down the position of CEO before the board settled on Read. AMD could undoubtedly use someone with a better grasp of the technical aspects of the job (something he seems to very much lack), but the difficulty is that AMD isn't attractive to the better qualified execs.
Well yes, but he has made the company back to being fully profitable coming from the crash due to ICC and bringing ATI back in full force on the market.

I actually posted on the D700 a little while ago. At the margins it is being sold at, it looks like AMD are basically giving the cards away considering the QA (runtime validation) that goes into professional grade GPUs and memory ICs. No doubt AMD will pick up market share in professional graphics, but that is predicated upon better OpenCL support, so I wouldn't be counting too many chickens just yet.
Well that due to more applications supporting OpenCL including Adobe which is a very popular software suite. Apple picked up on the professional side by including firepro series instead of quaddro which since apple products are loved enough will bring them back to a reasonable level on the professional side of things.

It's actually 35%, and has been gradually falling for the last few quarters, largely due to a decreasing presence in the mobile markets. The more worrying aspect is that this decrease has happened in spite of AMD's Gaming Evolved game bundles, Mantle, and release of a new architecture
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But that's just discrete, the mobile market is also having more a focus on the APU's which this does not include (Unless they are including that aspect in the chart). It was apparent their focus on the higher end mobile graphics is dwindling with the release of the M290X which was just a rebrand as you pointed out of the 8970m. But then again, no one seems to want to focus much on the mobile discrete GPU's.

That's a lot of variables that AMD have to surmount. AMD burned more than a few bridges with OEMs over delays and obfuscation with features and drivers in the mobile and desktop segments (Enduro, VCE missing in action etc). With regards software, AMD have just added a considerable workload for their driver team - Mantle (including getting GCN 1.0 and 1.1 working with it), DX12, and finding some extra performance for Nvidia's inbound low CPU overhead driver -which won't be limited to a handful of graphics card models.
Being slow has been an issue in the past, less apparent in this day and age. However I disagree with the comment on "Limited to a handful of graphics", while it maybe a bit more open than Mantle is at the moment, NVidia has a history and has already announced dropping older GPU lines like hot cakes in terms of support. While its not a huge amount, its going to depend on what cards they decide to keep or work with this support especially regarding Fermi.

There always seems to be an air of unbridled optimism by those that follow AMD, and yet if they've proved one thing it's that any technical edge they possess is never exploited fully, nor is it marketed particularly well. In the past AMD also had console contracts, also had technological leads (AMD64, GPU lossless audio, tessellation), also had first-to-market on new processes and architectures. Shouldn't those have translated into a better graph than the one above? and believe me, the CPU, x86 server, and overall graphics market share graphs look a lot less flattering.

Well ive said it before ill say it again, when you have 2 companies not focused on delivering great experiences for their products and instead focus on ways to harm the opponents doing well, this is what happens. Whether or not you like it, the famous ICC and the PhysX implementation along with programming games specifically to make things like CFX difficult just brings the whole market down on them. They win a lawsuit, but of course people drag their feet intentionally because they are allowed to which just brings the market crumbling down on the company.
 
. However I disagree with the comment on "Limited to a handful of graphics", while it maybe a bit more open than Mantle is at the moment, NVidia has a history and has already announced dropping older GPU lines like hot cakes in terms of support. While its not a huge amount, its going to depend on what cards they decide to keep or work with this support especially regarding Fermi.
Well, now you're just trolling.
But if you're genuinely uninformed of the facts...

Nvidia will still continue mainstream driver support for DX10/10.1 cards until April 2016 (see the link you posted). That means by the time support runs out, the first cards concerned (8800GTX, 8800GTS640) will have been supported for 9½ years. The last card covered - the late-coming OEM GT215 powered GT240 will have been supported for 6½ years.

Now we should compare that to AMD's DX10/10.1 cards. The HD 4000 were put on legacy support just over 4 years after the first cards debuted (HD 4870 and HD 4850) and less than 3 years after the last HD 4000 card launched (the HD 4860)

The previous generation (GeForce 6000/7000 series) - 8½ years of mainstream support. 3½ years better than ATI/AMD's

So what Nvidia "history" are you talking about?

The rest of your post smacks of shilling TBH, but rather than cover a whole raft of points, I'll just note this
Well yes, but he has made the company back to being fully profitable coming from the crash due to ICC and bringing ATI back in full force on the market.
The biggest part of Rory Read bringing AMD back to profitability?
AMD cutting its workforce, and
AMD cutting its workforce, and
AMD selling its campus and
AMD selling its offshore facilities.
 
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Well, now you're just trolling.
But if you're genuinely uninformed of the facts...

Technically the trolling is coming from someone who is speaking completely off the subject of I believe the name of the article was something along the lines of the Kabini Desktop APU's. So this whole debate is a trolling in that area in general from everyone, just thought I would join in the fun since the debate continues even though it should have been left alone.

Now we should compare that to AMD's DX10/10.1 cards. The HD 4000 were put on legacy support just over 4 years after the first cards debuted (HD 4870 and HD 4850) and less than 3 years after the last HD 4000 card launched (the HD 4860)
Drivers are still downloadable for them as well...But just wanted to see if your reaction because I knew you would bring this up and was waiting for the response.

Though putting a driver that says it will support it and actually supporting it are two totally different things.

The rest of your post smacks of shilling TBH, but rather than cover a whole raft of points, I'll just note this
The biggest part of Rory Read bringing AMD back to profitability?
AMD cutting its workforce, and
AMD cutting its workforce, and
AMD selling its campus and
AMD selling its offshore facilities.
AMD made profits after being in the red for awhile, and whether or not you like it the R9 series of cards has been selling faster than they can be stocked. Before you bring up anything regarding being in stock or what not, why don't you take a look at the release of the GTX 680 and think back a bit to how hard those were to be manufactured Cough cough... The only difference was those were not selling like hot cakes, they just were barely available because of a low amount of the Kepler Chip.

Rory made the company profit and got their driver division much better than the last like 10 driver revisions from Nvidia which have included bricking cards among other things. So the fact is for a software company, that's a pretty big problem to be said when the biggest issue for AMD recently has been the R9 290/X fans not being at the correct speeds (Which at least was adjustable).

Whether or not the purpose was different for the cards purchase, fact is fact. Given the fact that Intel and Nvidia both have been directly attacking AMD/ATI for years instead of focusing on the game pretty much sums up the problems in the industry.
 
Technically the trolling is coming from someone.
Classic troll response.
Post false information and when called out for false information, moves on to troll some more...way from the original point
Fact: You called out Nvidia for their legacy driver support using a link that ONLY concerned DX10 era cards moving to legacy support.
Fact: When I posted the actuality - which is Nvidia's record of mainstream driver support is markedly better than its competitor- a competitor you're shilling for, you ignore the information and move on.....moved so far on that you felt you had to drone on about drivers that aren't legacy in nature.
Cant say I'm surprised TBH
AMD made profits after being in the red for awhile,
The first full quarter Rory Read was in charge of AMD was Q4 2011
Q4 2011 - Net loss $177 million
Q1 2012- Net loss $590 million
Q2 2012- Net profit $37 million
Q3 2012- Net loss $157 million (announces job cuts)
Q4 2012- Net loss $177 million
Q1 2013- Net loss $146 million
Q2 2013- Net loss $46 million (first full quarter reflecting lower payroll)
Q3 2013- Net profit $31 million (includes $46 million sale of Singapore facility)
Q4 2013- Net profit $89 million (PS4 and Xbone APUs shipping for revenue)

Basically, console sales + payroll cuts + asset selling = profit
 
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Classic troll response.
Post false information and when called out for false information, moves on to troll some more.
Fact: You called out Nvidia for their legacy driver support using a link that ONLY concerned DX10 era cards moving to legacy support.
Fact: When I posted the actuality - which is Nvidia's record of mainstream driver support is markedly better than its competitor- a competitor you're shilling for, you ignore the information and move on.....moved so far on that you felt you had to drone on about drivers that aren't legacy in nature.
Cant say I'm surprised TBH
So what part of this is about Kabini? So the continuation of taking a thread way off topic is not trolling. Don't make me laugh...

Like I said, check your facts before you say they are supporting cards. Read 90% of what the cards they speak of in their drivers page:
7XX series cards. Saying this will improve on the 7XX series cards
http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/73218
That the driver for the 5XX series GPU, but no mention of improvements there. Other than writing at the bottom (These cards will run this driver). Drivers from Nvidia are specific to new released cards, hence why notebooks including mine or desktops no longer see any improvements other than the occasional poor SLI support for instance on my neighbors 3 way GTX 580 setup which is frustrating to say the least seeing him struggle to get good support.

The first full quarter Rory Read was in charge of AMD was Q4 2011
Q4 2011 - Net loss $177 million
Q1 2012- Net loss $590 million
Q2 2012- Net profit $37 million
Q3 2012- Net loss $157 million (announces job cuts)
Q4 2012- Net loss $177 million
Q1 2013- Net loss $146 million
Q2 2013- Net loss $46 million (first full quarter reflecting lower payroll)
Q3 2013- Net profit $31 million (includes $46 million sale of Singapore facility)
Q4 2013- Net profit $89 million (PS4 and Xbone APUs shipping for revenue)

Basically, console sales + payroll cuts + asset selling = profit
Which he changed the focus during those times to improve the problems that brought on those losses. What came out in around Q4 2011??? Bulldozer, which happened right as he took over which was one of the primary problems of that loss since the sales went downhill fast. So now that hes got the company the way he wants it and hes put his shift towards the APU's, Desktop, and GPU market the company is now profiting.

Shock and Awe, it took him time to fix what the previous guy had done. The fact that now they are starting to profit at least for 2 Quarters in a row shows the company building back up. On top of that getting rid of unneeded assets is just part of the game. If that led only to one quarter of profit, maybe, but the fact that now they are on the rise is showing and the new markets are starting to buy into APU's a lot more along with the fact they have guaranteed revenue from consoles for near a decade.

If your going to smite the man then think about this, could you do any better?
 
On top of that getting rid of unneeded assets is just part of the game.
Those "unneeded assets"? AMD are leasing them back from the companies they sold them to.
So unneeded that AMD still need to use them. Was the headline in the article I linked to not specific enough:
AMD Selling, Leasing Back Austin Campus to Raise Cash
If your going to smite the man then think about this, could you do any better?
...says the guy who just spent a few hundred words bagging Nvidia driver writers
Dumbest argument ever.
 
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