04-27-2016, 02:40 AM
Damn, AMD - heads up, hire Rollo right now!!!!! RollotheGreat - AMD's executive PR director, fair and balanced!
AMD's stock is trading at around $3.50-ish (went up sharply after an announcement of a joint venture to fab CPUs for the chinese market... UH?
http://wccftech.com/amd-stock-52-highest...n-listing/
That was huge for some announcement that won't bear too much fruition, as China already has access to stuff like this. I'm having a hard time understanding how it really excited the stock traders that much. They've all must been eyeing AMD's stock for quite some time now, I guess, given its low price to begin with along with much potential. Zen and 14nm stuff (along with the console upgrades) got them all anxious, and then once the stock price went up a bit after the announcement, they all jumped on it hoping to get some more shares while everybody were at it, just for the sake of grabbing some before the price went up further.
It feels too much like the Bitcoin trading market - sometimes the price just sharply increases or drops for no apparent reason.
BTW, while the concept of a cybercurrency mainly rocks in my books, I'm starting to dislike the cyber-currencies that are being 98% mined by the corporate-owned mining farms. It only gives further rise to the corporations and not to the individuals who are not owners or executives of such businesses. UGH! *reeks*! How are those cybercurrencies supposed to be viable for the circulation, if 98-99+% of such virtual currency is in the hands of such few businesses?
I know I'm going off a tangent here.. we just need a democracy (per-capita oriented cybercurrency) based currency, that shares most of the perks of BTC - and is work-based in a similar way that computers mine for BTC as an individual works to earn it, but is much much more autonomous and independent from the corrupt grip of a local government and bankers (and corporations as well) -- much like personal, private cash that is yet connected to the global economy rather than being subject to depreciation and losses/theft at large. Like a credit card that has a chip on it, a cybercurrency should be available in physical form, encrypted by the person's eye iris and fingerprint data, if one so desires, as a rule of the thumb.
Then such spineless traditional bankers can go and find more meaningful work that's not merely leeching off the insecurities of the society in general. One of the biggest perks of the cybercurrency - eliminating the middleman (or the banker) would save us trillions upon trillions each year. In other words, everybody gets to be one's own personal banker in the Monopoly game - not just one guy who is authorized to handle everything and actually rewarded for capitalizing upon the banking aspect of it.
ROFLMAO, TPU having negative words about AMD... again!!! TPU, one of AMD's old favorite shill sites!
AMD's stock is trading at around $3.50-ish (went up sharply after an announcement of a joint venture to fab CPUs for the chinese market... UH?
http://wccftech.com/amd-stock-52-highest...n-listing/
That was huge for some announcement that won't bear too much fruition, as China already has access to stuff like this. I'm having a hard time understanding how it really excited the stock traders that much. They've all must been eyeing AMD's stock for quite some time now, I guess, given its low price to begin with along with much potential. Zen and 14nm stuff (along with the console upgrades) got them all anxious, and then once the stock price went up a bit after the announcement, they all jumped on it hoping to get some more shares while everybody were at it, just for the sake of grabbing some before the price went up further.
It feels too much like the Bitcoin trading market - sometimes the price just sharply increases or drops for no apparent reason.
BTW, while the concept of a cybercurrency mainly rocks in my books, I'm starting to dislike the cyber-currencies that are being 98% mined by the corporate-owned mining farms. It only gives further rise to the corporations and not to the individuals who are not owners or executives of such businesses. UGH! *reeks*! How are those cybercurrencies supposed to be viable for the circulation, if 98-99+% of such virtual currency is in the hands of such few businesses?
I know I'm going off a tangent here.. we just need a democracy (per-capita oriented cybercurrency) based currency, that shares most of the perks of BTC - and is work-based in a similar way that computers mine for BTC as an individual works to earn it, but is much much more autonomous and independent from the corrupt grip of a local government and bankers (and corporations as well) -- much like personal, private cash that is yet connected to the global economy rather than being subject to depreciation and losses/theft at large. Like a credit card that has a chip on it, a cybercurrency should be available in physical form, encrypted by the person's eye iris and fingerprint data, if one so desires, as a rule of the thumb.
Then such spineless traditional bankers can go and find more meaningful work that's not merely leeching off the insecurities of the society in general. One of the biggest perks of the cybercurrency - eliminating the middleman (or the banker) would save us trillions upon trillions each year. In other words, everybody gets to be one's own personal banker in the Monopoly game - not just one guy who is authorized to handle everything and actually rewarded for capitalizing upon the banking aspect of it.
(04-26-2016, 05:41 AM)SteelCrysis Wrote: http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/R...iew/4.html
Quote:The Radeon Pro Duo is threatened with a similar marketing problem. It's really cool today, but the lure of next-generation "Pascal" and "Polaris" GPUs being literally around the corner could keep buyers away. Dual-GPU cards, if launched early enough in the life cycle of a GPU's architecture, could present buyers with genuinely good future-proofing options. One can still find R9 295X2 users getting lucky with playable 4K Ultra HD performance. As if "Fiji" and the R9 Fury X weren't late enough, the Pro Duo is grossly mistimed. AMD's 2015 reveal of the "Fiji" GPU by company CEO Lisa Su could have been a better time to come up with this card. Even a month after the R9 Fury X's launch could have been fine.
The other dimension of the marketing problem, and one AMD learned absolutely nothing from with its Radeon R9 Nano launch drama, is putting the card in the hands of reviewers with hundreds of data points. There's a reason why our test-bench consists of such a vast diversity of games and game-engines. It gives you an idea of what kind of games aren't ideal for the graphics card being tested.
We don't have a card yet, and we aren't getting one. Almost as if a repeat of the R9 Nano PR trainwreck, there is a surreal celebration of cluelessness among AMD and its marketing partners responsible for Germany. Last week, we asked AMD's German PR agency on what the plan was regarding sampling and scheduling and received a "no idea on timing." We also checked with AMD, and they didn't know either, giving us a "will keep you updated" response. We've been reviewing Radeons for over a decade now, and if AMD does not want something to be reviewed, a "no" goes over better than flat-out denying the very existence of an upcoming product's launch (one that has already seen a paper-launch).
At its press-briefing for the Radeon Pro Duo, and even briefly at its "Capsaicin" event, AMD saw the need to tease its future "Polaris" and "Vega" architectures and upcoming GPU product stacks. AMD itself wants you to hope for the next-generation. This is hype more than a tease on AMD's part.
ROFLMAO, TPU having negative words about AMD... again!!! TPU, one of AMD's old favorite shill sites!