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Answer» Decided to look around at stocks the other day to see where I should invest some money next in tech stocks that may have taken a hard hit but would rebound, and decided to check out AMD and was surprised at the losses they have had and price per share below $1.90 a share. AMD has hired a consulting firm to help the beleaguered chip company ponder a split of its business or a spin-off, according to a Reuters story that appeared Friday night. After years of losses, decades of competing as the No. 2 to Intel and countless mistakes on execution or failure to see a market, the story paints the decision as one of many that CEO Lisa Su might make to help turn AMD around. Which conflicts with: Quote AMD spokeswoman Sarah Youngbauer says, “we have not hired an outside agency to explore spinning-off/splitting the company,” and added that AMD remains committed to the strategy the company laid out in its financial analyst day held in May. While I have always liked AMD's products up until now as being the cheaper way to go and get somewhat similar performance at a savings, Intel has won the CPU race, and my recent search to try to get an AMD Based Video Card for $100 or less that out performs the Price/Performance Ratio of nVidia based video cards, I actually ended up going back to nVidia with their GEFORCE 750 GTX which the AMD R7 250X at the same $100 or less BUDGET couldn't compete with the 750GTX that is more than double the benchmark performance of the Radeon R7 250X. The market of video cards for less than $100 there is an abundance of old GPUs available, but performance on the cheap no longer exists for AMD in the GPU market when nVidia has the better GPU for same budget. I have this strong feeling that AMD is not going to pull out of this downward spiral, and either they are going to fight it out to the very end and go bankrupt or someone is going to buy them out. I cant imagine how Intel's CPU prices would be without competition from another CPU identity to keep their prices more realistic with competition vs a free for all market that any price goes with maximum margin. Looking for information that might show some hope for AMD, there isnt much out there that shows much hope for AMD as for they are not likely to make a leap in stride against Intel with the CPU technology at least from what I have found in the search for info. This other site shows that AMD might have some hope for it. http://www.theplatform.net/2015/07/30/future-systems-can-exascale-revive-amd/ Personally, I feel AMD stocks are too high risk, and so I am not going to invest my money into them. If it was a dip in the road that I knew that they would pull themselves out of, then I'd throw lots of investment money their way, but I just dont feel that they are a good investment at this time, because their track record has been getting worse over the last 5 years. My last AMD product purchases were for a AMD FX-8350 4Ghz 8-core build that runs between 465 and 580 watts when gaming and an electron sipper AMD Sempron 3850 Kabini Quad-Core 1.3Ghz 25 watt TDP for use as a workstation for surfing web and light-gaming in which it actually plays games like Hearthstone and World of Warcraft on low graphics settings ok at 30-60 fps with its internal GPU of the APU of the AMD Radeon HD 8280. These 2 new builds might be my last with AMD. [attachment deleted by admin to conserve space]Worse thing to do is invest in a stock you like. If you have a limited about of time and money, the more conservative way is to invest in a will-managed technology mutual fund. Here is a list: http://money.usnews.com/funds/mutual-funds/rankings/technology Quote TechnologyMorningstar is a good source of information on stocks and funds. http://www.morningstar.com/stocks.html They will not come out of this i fear...AMD has a history of blunders. But now the whole industry is getting into a bind. Neither AMD nor Intel can meet the current demand for software drivers for new chips, so the market is getting sour. Hard to believe? Read this: AMD and Intel fail to provide drivers updates. Quote Millions of PC owners hoping to upgrade to Windows 10 face disappointment as major chipset manufacturers Intel and AMD are delaying, or failing to provide, Windows 10 compatible drivers for their hardware. With Windows 10 planned to be the first of more regular upgrades to the operating system, hardware under TWO years old is facing obsolescence....hardware under two years old is facing obsolescence. Drivers for Windows Vista, 7, and 8 work on Windows 10. Windows 10 USES the same driver framework as those versions of Windows; Windows 10-specific drivers are not necessary.Not sure about the credibility of this article, but interesting read if true that Microsoft and Intel are interested in acquiring AMD. http://www.thestreet.com/story/13286063/1/advanced-micro-devices-amd-stock-spikes-on-potential-microsoft-buyout-report.htmlThe AMD and Microsoft story is credible. Here is an article from San Jose: Biz Break: AMD soars on Microsoft, Intel takeover rumors Quote By George AvalosStill, I am not buying AMD stock. |
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