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During our research for this interview, we'd heard a lot about the 3-stage plan.
We asked Byrne how exactly it was supposed to work.
“Stage one was about restructuring”, explained Byrne. “Right-sizing the company to make sure we were running as efficiently as possible and focused on core parts of the business”.
“For stage two, we then accelerated the business, including realigning sales and marketing, with a strong focus on a return to profitability & successfully ramping a set of new products”, he said.
“Finally, there’s stage 3, which is where we are now”, said Byrne. “We are making steady progress on transforming our business and leveraging both our IP and engineering expertise to diversify our product portfolio and offer solutions that work for both traditional markets as well as the new, high growth areas”.
“This transformation includes a real push towards HSA – Heterogenous Systems Architecture – accelerating toward a compute future with a big demand on graphics performance and parallel computing as well as ambidextrous computing”, he told us.
I’m happy that AMD is making a recovery and I wish it good luck, but it’s a pity that desktop enthusiasts don’t see to be part of the roadmap.
AMD get a lot of stick in the CPU sector, but they offer a lot for budget users. I am sure they will get high end processors out again in 2015 to target intel.
Their GPU’s are very strong this year and have caused nvidia some serious embarassment. TITAN Z for instance? it was delayed after they saw the performance of the R9 295X2.
Heres to the future !
R9 295X2 has been the best video card release ever IMO. I can’t afford one, but the value is actually very strong and the performance at Ultra HD 4K is incredible. First watercooled reference card ever 🙂 CPU’s – been a while since I have owned AMD – Intel are just so far ahead. I think AMD did well from console sales on Xbox one and PS4. must have made them billions already.
AMD totally lost the CPU wars, and the gpu war is also on a loosing side. Although 295×2 is a monstrous gpu, it is far too expensive for most people, only enthusiasts with really deep pockets can get one (or more). From my point of view, a PC enthusiast with a relatively small budget, AMD has basically nothing to offer. Intel cpus trample amds to death, and for the same price, an Nvidia gpu will be overall better performance wise. Console-wise speaking, yeah, they kind of won, but that is not enough to keep them afloat… Let us hope they will have something better to offer in the period to come.
@Wolf…
” Although 295×2 is a monstrous gpu, it is far too expensive for most people, only enthusiasts with really deep pockets can get one (or more). ”
Hmmm… and nVidia’s Titan Z at $3000 is what, somehow a better deal?
295X ATE nVidia’s lunch. So much that nVidia canceled the release.
Alexander Wolheart: Master of the Non-Sequitor.
@ CSO John Byrne
If you atre reading this then when is AMD gong to release multi socket Kaveri?
Twin or Quad APU’s would be a real monster both in Compute performance and graphics.