AMD and Google in Race to Buy Out MIPS

[Makaveli]

How can AMD afford this ?

lol I was just gonna say this google can buy amd 10x over.

What race!!

 

[amd/atifiend]

i must say if i had the disposable income i might consider investing in AMD. I am starting to like their approach to diversification....i just hope they do not spread their resources too thin and have to spin off their investments before they can produce fruitful returns.

^ that would be funny if AMD won the race and then google bought AMD but i do not believe the x86 license is transferable.

 

[Thefumigator]

Ultra-cheap Android tablet, based on MIPS CPU (SoC actually). This works because Linux (which Android is based upon) runs on MIPS for ages. Recompiling native applications should be no more difficult than porting from x86 to ARM for example.

The world's first Google-authorized ICS tablet was the Chinese-made, MIPS-based, 7" Ainol Novo 7 Paladin tablet. It sells for sub-$100 and ships from China, but without hours of tweaking, it fails to run even the most common apps

Are you sure of this? because for what I know android apps are architecture-agnostic, as they are written in java and run over a android framework. I have programmed some small things, I know in some cases where you write arm code, then it won't run on mips.

If you heard those problems on release, maybe it was running something below 4.0
Actually, they are selling the ainol novo with android 4.0, for less than 100$

As an example Angry birds runs perfectly fine without a glitch. It seems it doesn't have any arm code in it.

 

[Thefumigator]

i must say if i had the disposable income i might consider investing in AMD. I am starting to like their approach to diversification....i just hope they do not spread their resources too thin and have to spin off their investments before they can produce fruitful returns.

I was going to buy AMD stock in year 2000... I just couldn't.
It would have been smarter choice to buy google stock but when I realized it was 200x more expensive than when I started planning something.

 

[kid41212003]

AMD needs this, if Google wins they will have a foothold to dramatically undercut the smartphone market with low cost devices, drive out competition, and then stop innovation.

Only if it beat ARM by a huge margin, but even so like in Intel vs AMD's case, AMD didn't go out of business.

You are overacted.

 

[Goodman]

lol I was just gonna say this google can buy amd 10x over.

What race!!

Even worst Google worth much more than Intel 197.50B vs 139.97B

 

[faramir]

Are you sure of this? because for what I know android apps are architecture-agnostic, as they are written in java and run over a android framework. I have programmed some small things, I know in some cases where you write arm code, then it won't run on mips.

Java (Dalvik) apps should run just fine. That guy is grossly exagarating.

 

[ompak5]

i think its not just MIPS architecture, its more on TALENT, AMD needs more engineer to power their desktop,server and netbooks processor (low power usage) (MIPS architecture beat all ARM in power usage even at 64 nanometere vs 40 and 28 nanometer). and i think they want to improve their mobile computing... heheheehe. i hope AMD wins here...

 

[Thefumigator]

i think its not just MIPS architecture, its more on TALENT, AMD needs more engineer to power their desktop,server and netbooks processor (low power usage) (MIPS architecture beat all ARM in power usage even at 64 nanometere vs 40 and 28 nanometer). and i think they want to improve their mobile computing... heheheehe. i hope AMD wins here...

If AMD wins, the interesting thing will be not only the chip vs chip war, but the architecture vs architecture too.