AMD is an Amazing company and probably one of the best.
AMD is known to invent and create standards.
Large old corporations of today are trying to compete and survive in an ecosystem they think they can own up.
AMD is going south week by week. Unable to deliver new products. AMD must reinvent its business strategy.
Part of AMD's problem stems from the fact that being an older hardware company they still dont have a production entity of
their own that they can rely on. Their chips are made by GlobalFoundries or TSMC...this depends on who has a production ready
node. That practically means AMD depends on other companies for a profit margin and then again they have to pay to keep the
production on, irrespective of whether they make any profit or not. This is based on older business models.
One Plus a new company, that has advertised from word of mouth and youtube videos, have a radically new approach to consumerism.
OnePlus devveloped a huge vaccuum in the supply chain....the demand went up exponentially. Giving correct information to consumers
is of utmost important when you target advertisement directly to an individual customer.
Intel, to my knowledge understands this( and they teases with idoicy). AMD just ignores this.
Google can have its own foundry. But that's counter-productive, which also means hiring more lawyers. They exactly know what they
are doing and what they will get into.
The PS4 sales cant help keep AMD afloat.
AMD is now concentrating on HBM via the newly released Fury X. HBM(High Bandwidth Memory) is Dead On Arrival.
The FuryX is not a consumer product, sort of an IPO(Initial Public Offering) to investors and big-spenders. It has no real value other than
to take away the performance crown from Nvidia.
AMD which has HSA around for more than a year, could have easily built a new APU with HBM for consumers. Instead they choose
to waste money to make flagship graphics cards that drive 4k games, while Nvidia released the new shield based on Android..which has
everyone drooling irrespective of its price. They could have easily have built an APU with 6 cores based on DDR4 and even that would
have me drooling....considering DDR4 is expensive.
AMD are spending more on the new Zen CPU being made by Jim Keller, again to compete with Intel, while Asus released
the zenfone 2 with a quad-core Intel chip with 4GB RAM, kicking Qualcomm in the shin.
AMD has launched into space with the intent of going to MARS but have enough fuel to reach only upto the Moon.
Anyone has the right to refute me and put up an argument. Im not here to entertain anyone's righteousness, you really need to
look at business practices and the team incharge of product development at AMD and know how obsolete their practices are.
AMD has not been able to push the real use of HSA APU's where GPGPU compute is required.
If you really need a GPGPU solution on linux, you dont have an option to use OpenCL on AMD graphics, you will only be able, with an NVIDIA CUDA Card.