Nvidia has shat the bed, now AMD has a chance to publicly say something like:
While our primary focus at the moment is data centers, we remain commited to consumers with a special focus on gaming, this is why we are very happy to announce a new consumer division inside AMD! They remain commited to providing cost effective consumer and gaming CPUs and GPUs, and will keep developing Ryzen and Radeon products.
And something like: “The tech industry is littered with the corpses of tech giants who forget that those who stop innovating for short term financial gain, die. AMD will stop all investment in stock buybacks and circular funding with immediate effect. Instead AMD will invest in engineering across a wide range of products and target markets. Diversity is the only sustainable long term strategy.”
They are also hoping to kill the consumer market, it’s too much effort and can’t be manipulated as easily by taking a b2b customer CEO out to lunch on your yacht.
Speak for yourself. I’d be down for a nice lunch and a yacht trip. Maybe even some seduction! I wanted to buy a new gaming PC for a few years now anyway.
Tell them you want like a thousand threadrippers, but then excuse yourself to the bathroom, say you was allergic to something in the food, and that it led you to believe you would start with a single consumer-grade card.
It’s probably easier in b2b because you can either show Max performance or Max performance per watt to close the business. For b2c, you need marketing and more downstream collaboration for products.
Absolutely, it’s a whole production to be competitive in b2c. On the other hand, I think doing well in B2C has downstream benefits for business hardware sales (ASSUMING the market is not captured via backroom deals and the opinion of normal humans is a factor in sales).
Nvidia has shat the bed, now AMD has a chance to publicly say something like:
And something like: “The tech industry is littered with the corpses of tech giants who forget that those who stop innovating for short term financial gain, die. AMD will stop all investment in stock buybacks and circular funding with immediate effect. Instead AMD will invest in engineering across a wide range of products and target markets. Diversity is the only sustainable long term strategy.”
AMD never misses a chance to miss a chance.
Then again, when the competition isn’t your cousin anymore maybe you stop going easy on them.
They are also hoping to kill the consumer market, it’s too much effort and can’t be manipulated as easily by taking a b2b customer CEO out to lunch on your yacht.
Speak for yourself. I’d be down for a nice lunch and a yacht trip. Maybe even some seduction! I wanted to buy a new gaming PC for a few years now anyway.
Tell them you want like a thousand threadrippers, but then excuse yourself to the bathroom, say you was allergic to something in the food, and that it led you to believe you would start with a single consumer-grade card.
And a threadripper. And I see it more like the sample than an actual purchase. So of course it’s free.
It’s probably easier in b2b because you can either show Max performance or Max performance per watt to close the business. For b2c, you need marketing and more downstream collaboration for products.
Absolutely, it’s a whole production to be competitive in b2c. On the other hand, I think doing well in B2C has downstream benefits for business hardware sales (ASSUMING the market is not captured via backroom deals and the opinion of normal humans is a factor in sales).
Sigh, you are probably right.
Though good PR is valuable.
They will just follow what Nvidia does even now.
Wonder who Lisa Su will fuck to be like big boi Huang
Probably someone with the last name of Huang. Possibly Su.
Shuan Joneson
You think they give a fuck about your pennies?
Good PR is valuable.
Ikr? But it’s more valuable to create artificial scarcity. Them saying we used to be the good guys is like the Republicans bragging about slavery.