It’ll be an uphill battle. Consensus estimates have AMD’s 2025 revenues reaching $32.6 billion, up just $7.0 billion.
“We are committed to treating impacted employees with respect and helping them through this transition.”
The job cuts are concentrated on sales and marketing positions for areas such as consumer PC and gaming PCs, according to a person familiar with the process who asked not to be identified because the matter is private
I don't like it, but if the Bloomberg article is true , they sure are cutting the right areas at least:
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We all remember the atrocious "gaming uplift" marketing for initial Zen 5 chips, right?
IMO it has been terrible for 4+ years. I still remeber "gamecache", uugh
I would call that the least bad area, not the right area. Just because they have bad marketing does not mean those marketing positions should be deleted.I don't like it, but if the Bloomberg article is true , they sure are cutting the right areas at least:
No, people here are AMD's worst customers. Loudest critics. Biggest value seekers. Declining market size.They need to have a spokesperson here. By interacting with us, he/she could get at least a "little" idea of why people like AMD and what more they expect from AMD to keep liking them even more. If they can wrap their heads around why some people get disappointed about their launches or why certain avid users are deciding to skip a generation, it will help them that much more to create a more compelling product that will be much harder to resist for the enthusiast. And that trickles down to normal users because most enthusiasts love to express and spread their excitement when using a product and recommend it to anyone and everyone in their circle. Some may even be good writers and do a very public blogpost, giving AMD free publicity.
AMD purposely didn't release new cards, so you can't expect profit. Solution, need to make new graphics cards and not fire employees.gaming division saw a 69% year-over-year decline
I don't this is true. They are making big gains in AI.AMD has struggled to make progress in AI chip sales against rival Nvidia
Bad timing, should have reserved the name for X3D.Gamecache was probably peak stupidity. Maybe not as its been consistently bad. But that one was really stupid.
If so then eh, okay. But perhaps those people could help them clean up the obviously poor marketing they've had in the recent past? At least they aren't cutting from embedded/console which is underperforming currently (for predictable reasons).Someone suggested it is mostly due to excess employees picked up from acquired companies.
That makes it more likely these divisions were unaffected.MLID claims
But let's be realistic. AMD could do a LOT better. They have both CPU and GPU. How come they can't figure out a way to create more synergy between the two and make Nvidia/Intel combo look unattractive? Their constant focus on enterprise sucks. This is more proof that they think gaming is unimportant to their bottom line or they have little confidence in their teams to change the status quo. Whether this is the fault of the management (hiring 2nd rate employees coz the best end up at Nvidia or Apple or they don't want to pay enough to attract top talent) or the employees themselves (failing at execution due to whatever reasons) is something we may never know.MLID claims they are cutting from gaming and semi division
Because chungus APUs are niche?How come they can't figure out a way to create more synergy between the two and make Nvidia/Intel combo look unattractive?
It works.Their constant focus on enterprise sucks
Well yeah the market for dGPUs is incredibly tribalistic, utterly impossible to breach without expensive and tacky halo designs and a lot of bribes for shills.This is more proof that they think gaming is unimportant to their bottom line or they have little confidence in their teams to change the status quo.
Sadly that's all trueWell yeah the market for dGPUs is incredibly tribalistic, utterly impossible to breach without expensive and tacky halo designs and a lot of bribes for shills.
Horrible ROI for questionable gains.
They wouldn't be if they eliminated the need for horrible crap like 4060 8GB or 7060 8GB. Get 32GB RAM and allocate half of it to APU.Because chungus APUs are niche?
Duh.Sadly that's all true
Removes PC flexibility and is not compatible with desktop sockets (or ATX at large).They wouldn't be if they eliminated the need for horrible crap like 4060 8GB or 7060 8GB. Get 32GB RAM and allocate half of it to APU.
They wouldn't be if they eliminated the need for horrible crap like 4060 8GB or 7060 8GB. Get 32GB RAM and allocate half of it to APU.
I think they're talking about strix halo with its 256-bit bus and 8500 mt/s memory, which is ~270GB/s.A 4060 has 272GB/s of bandwidth. 128bit DDR5 6000 only has ~96.
Even the initial LPDDR6 modules, at 10.667Gbps, only have 227GB/s after the interface overhead.
If AMD really cared about total domination, they would introduce quad channel RAM to consumer desktops, give hex or octa channel to TR platform and reserve 12 channels for their servers. Being complacent while ahead never turns out well, as can be seen with Intel. Mobos are already $300 or more. Respectfully, please don't give me any crap excuse that they can't do quad channel in that price range.128bit DDR5 6000 only has ~96.
A 4060 has 272GB/s of bandwidth. 128bit DDR5 6000 only has ~96.
Even the initial LPDDR6 modules, at 10.667Gbps, only have 227GB/s after the interface overhead.