It appears that the bulldozer chip is not competitive in the desktop segment in most scenarios, but from the review here on AT it seemed to do fairly well with very threaded applications. This raises the question; can it be competitive in the server and HPC markets? Of course, HPC is a very small market but there amd is doing very well. Given that there is no shortage of threads in many server applications, amd might do better there than in the desktop segment. Though it appears that the power usage is larger than for intel systems, and that's bad for servers.
For some reason amd continues to make profit, yet the share price has certainly plummeted. I was waiting for the bulldozer review to decide on buying shares, but given the weakness of BD in the desktop segment, I am not going to buy at 4.92 usd (price right now).
For some reason amd continues to make profit, yet the share price has certainly plummeted. I was waiting for the bulldozer review to decide on buying shares, but given the weakness of BD in the desktop segment, I am not going to buy at 4.92 usd (price right now).