Haven't AMD sold off their flashmemory business?

This should come as no surprise to anyone that is close to what it takes to compete in silicon and especially the bleeding edge performance world

It takes billions a year to develop leading edge process. Then it takes multi-billions to outfit a new factory to build products. Next you need multiple design, validation, test team to support all the revisions of the chip to debug and tweek the CPU. This means AMD needs to have huge volumes ( 70-100million unit volume) and also revenue and profits. AMD has none of this.

The others on the list are either DRAM/commodity focused company/consortiums that need a bit less capital, or like TI that have a high margin business.

AMD is fooling itself that it can compete in leading edge CPU.

who will think of the children?

It's not about how many chips you can make, it's how you use them that counts. Haha.

This is an obvious report. Obviously samsung and texas are gonna be up there, they supply most of the chips that everyone uses including Intel, AMD and Nvidia. Nvidia isn't even up there for obvious reason as well.

Intel is number 1 because they make many chips for their platforms. Guess who's trying to be a platform comapny, you guessed it AMD who, if they are successful with their platform for business, will eventually hold the no 1 or 2 spot in 5 to 10 years.

Hynix? Renesas? Who the crap are these guys and how is it that they're beating AMD at marketshare?

More bad news for AMD, I wonder where this will end......

Next up: AMD takeover by one of the top 19. Intel of course couldn't acquire them unless a repulican was elected in '08.