AMD has been recording profitable quarters upon quarters for some time now and is out to expand its portfolio with FPGA chips designed for the telecommunications and defense markets. The merger between AMD and Xilinx could enable team red to become an important player in the 5G infrastructure sector, plus it could strengthen its position in the data center market and finally try its hand at AI-driven applications.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-may-acquire-FPGA-maker-Xilinx-for-30-billion.497524.0.html
AMD's recent success has been great, as it's the consumer who ultimately wins from there being actual competition in the CPU space again, but while I'm glad AMD is able to actually start selling their CPUs (and possibly GPUs) for what they're worth and make some much deserved profit which will hopefully be spent on further R&D to continue pushing Intel/Nvidia, the fact they're doing so, and this merger, which is just going to reduce competition by consolidating the players, does have me a bit concerned. Definitely something to watch closely. But as the article states, I also hope that, just as they're starting to reap the benefits of merging with ATi and finally pulling ahead again after all these years, they don't screw it up by pushing too far, too fast.
Quote from: vertigo on October 09, 2020, 18:05:11
AMD's recent success has been great, as it's the consumer who ultimately wins from there being actual competition in the CPU space again, but while I'm glad AMD is able to actually start selling their CPUs (and possibly GPUs) for what they're worth and make some much deserved profit which will hopefully be spent on further R&D to continue pushing Intel/Nvidia, the fact they're doing so, and this merger, which is just going to reduce competition by consolidating the players, does have me a bit concerned. Definitely something to watch closely. But as the article states, I also hope that, just as they're starting to reap the benefits of merging with ATi and finally pulling ahead again after all these years, they don't screw it up by pushing too far, too fast.
They need to compete with Stratix 10 TX so I think this will result in more competition.