AMD Radeon Boss Raja Koduri Jumps Ship

[Th3pwn3r]

Anyway,let's not be two morons who steer this discussion off topic.

His posts went from being thought out and fairly logical to a flaming and ranting pretty much every single post. Oh well.

 

[rtwjunkie]

I think that's what saved them. At the time they were getting crushed by Intel and their anti-competitive practices. They needed a new market where the playing-ground was even. They sure as hell got their return on investment , you may think they paid an exorbitant amount of money but what people don't realize is that it takes dozens or even hundreds or millions of dollars just to keep the company going.

We must remember things differently. AMD was not exactly getting crushed. Surprised, yes. But the exorbitant purchase price of ATI is easily one of the worst business decisions in history. It is what kept AMD fully in the red for over a decade.

Had they invested half of that in CPU's R&D, they likely would have been profitable and not needed a GPU fmdivision to just barely keep them afloat.

 

[Konceptz]

Intel offered him a bigger check, who wouldn't follow the money?

 

[medi01]

Had they invested half of that in CPU's R&D, they likely would have been profitable and not needed a GPU fmdivision to just barely keep them afloat.

CPU + GPU synergy is too good to just skip it.
Even back in "best" times, AMD was no match to Intel, they had to seek "non-conventional" ways.