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AMD to Create Tailored Products Integrating Customer-Specific IP

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AMD announced today a strategic focus on developing one-of-a-kind solutions through its Semi-Custom Business Unit based on the extensive set of intellectual property (IP) amassed across AMD processors, graphics and multimedia. Providing to customers a level of flexibility and differentiation that goes beyond standard AMD products, the business unit takes AMD to a new level of customer-centric design by integrating these building blocks with customer-specific IP to create tailor-made solutions using a flexible System-on-a-Chip (SoC) design methodology.

AMD's high-performance SoC processor design methodology provides a modular approach, leveraging best practices to readily re-use silicon IP and design building blocks. With the Semi-Custom Business Unit, AMD collaborates with customers to create customized chip solutions that help enable customers to push the boundaries in product development. The business unit features a strong team of engineers who are well-versed in graphics and compute processing, and is led by Corporate Vice President and General Manager Saeid Moshkelani. Moshkelani joined AMD last year from Trident Microsystems and reports to AMD Senior Vice President and General Manager of Global Business Units Lisa Su.

"Innovation in computing over the next decade will come from deep knowledge and integration of hardware, software and system expertise," said Su. "The charter of the Semi-Custom Business Unit at AMD is to provide OEM customers access to leading-edge IP to create tailored and differentiated solutions. AMD's high-performance heritage, strategic investments in IP, and SoC design methodology enable customer-specific solutions that are truly one-of-a-kind."

"AMD has a strong intellectual property portfolio and a nimble approach to chip design. That combination should help the company capitalize on new opportunities by customizing its IP building blocks for specific applications and use cases," said Charles King, president and principal analyst, Pund-IT, Inc. "AMD's ability to flexibly collaborate with customers should lead to the development of high-value solutions that deliver superior performance and end-user satisfaction."

The Semi-Custom Business Unit will focus on high-volume, high-value applications across a wide array of markets, including: gaming, set-top boxes, smart TVs, PCs, tablets, servers, high performance computing and infrastructure applications. The PlayStation 4 (PS4) from Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) is the first announced customer design win. With AMD's scalable Semi-Custom solutions, IP blocks can be quickly tailored without having to design a new platform. The Semi-Custom Business Unit is able to deliver tailor-made solutions within an accelerated timeframe.

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You knew this was in the works with AMD winning the next Xbox, PS and Wii contracts. With their move to SoCs for tablets and other new industries, AMD is creating many new revenue streams. It's all good for consumers as we get better products at reasonable prices.
 

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Apparantly someone like all of this AMD news there stock is up over a dollar in the past two weeks. Wish I would have purchased more at $2.28 when I had the chance $3.45 now :eek:
 

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I would say that they are still a good buy at this price...
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I would say that they are still a good buy at this price...
JMO

This, we've seen AMD's stock get a lot higher. I actually have some investment assets that I might shift to AMD just to see what happens. By the time the new Playstation and Xbox come out, I bet it will be double where it is now.
 

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This, we've seen AMD's stock get a lot higher. I actually have some investment assets that I might shift to AMD just to see what happens. By the time the new Playstation and Xbox come out, I bet it will be double where it is now.

Double is an understatement while consoles don't make up very much of the market (PC's outsell all of the 360's sold every quarter), they push the company name out.

If AMD was smart it would take over the smart tv market before it has a chance to take off. An AMD sticker on every TV sold and the capability to play xbox/PS/steam games internally would be ingenious.
 
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An AMD sticker on every TV sold and the capability to play xbox/PS/steam games internally would be ingenious.

Yes it would, that's why nVidia can't allow it to happen without countering with their own, more powerful hardware. The video wars are just starting to get interesting. Or maybe nVidia will just go in another direction and make their pile in the burgeoning GPGPU market. Either way the technology trickles down to the consumer and we all benefit. AMD's unified memory architecture also looks promising, maybe the CPU wars are heating up.
 
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