Oh yes, of course, it's the customer who's to blame he doesn't buy a company's products, and that missing invention and performance gains let us stay with the same rigs for double the time than back then when every new generation kicked the last GPUs (and probably CPUs) behind. Nonsense. edit: For years now the voice of manufacturers have said the PC market is declining (then again there have been new shipping records with mainboards in the past 12 months I read somewhere iirc), so actually it's poor management not to adopt to such trends, and expect more sales than the 'crippled PC market' has to offer. This statement really makes me grumpy.
Interesting. Intel seems to be doing OK in this "poor demand" market: Also strange that AMD would throw PC gamers under the bus since I'd been hearing the PC is making a bit of a comeback.
GPU only, AMD need to be price competitive. Releasing a weaker GPU than the competition and then charging the same isn't going to win over many consumers.
I know that everyone here is relevant and stuff. But have single of you thought that AMD is not talking about "people not buying r9-300x cards"? Those were released 18t of June. And therefore they were out in shops for like 13% of mentioned Q2. If you are pointing towards Carrizo APU, then those were released early June, but OEMs, did not deliver anything meaningful. (Sensible people are not complaining about APU performance, but about configurations those chips come in. people do not want 1366x768 screens on 15.6'' notebooks. Nor they want 17'' APU with poor dGPU combination. But that is what we get.) So to sum it up. Try to be relevant people.
3xx series and Fury is relevant. The 2xx series in most cases is from 2013, others from 2011. They've had plenty of time to adjust their focus and get things right but mostly let down by software support and marketing. NVIDIA have great marketing, with a budget to match.
They can blame themselves for having limited FuryX cards on release for the next quarter. Way to call out pc gamers as well too. Blame their 300 series retreads and all the other retreads over the last 4 years and not having a proper cpu out in ages.
Could be perhaps that PC gamers this year are currently happy with their setups or had no real reason to upgrade their CPU's. Especially if you already had an i7.
I thought they said it was bacuase that pc games are not that good they are better on consoles. I had a vision that ms got hold of some of amd and all game platforms were microworks titles :infinity:
Yep, it's not like we're not buying due to their performance since 2006. It's all our fault. :wanker: I bet the majority of us would buy AMD CPUs for our next upgrades the moment they have something competitive just to keep them going even if the Intel option was the same price.
So in very short and simple way guys: - You blame hardware which is available for 1/8th of quarter for entire quarter results. - And then you blame quarter results on hardware which was not even at store shelves. Anything else you can say? Anything intelligent for change?
Its a funny article, totally the invert of what i have this thursday on a conference with AMD directors board and who completely contradict what have been posted on other sites ... Well maybe more info on the 29th July ..
so it the customers fault for not wanting to buy amd when they make inferior desktop cpu compared to intel? That is almost as good as capcom blaming the customers for not buying there games. and have so for almost ?10? years?
Yes we do. They (AMD) ran that "great" AD campaign called "It's Coming" basically telling its customers not to buy anything just yet better is around the corner. This is AMD's fault and they turn around and blame their customers. Please someone tell me how this is a company you should support.
