New AMD CEO discusses going after Intel

[zatoicchi]

With all the media raving about netbooks and how small and inexpensive they are (even though more recently announced netbooks are often more expensive than fuller-fledged notebooks), it's not surprising to see financial analysts questioning AMD's new CEO Dirk Meyer on AMD's response to Intel's Atom CPU. His response? "We're a much smaller company with not nearly the scale that our competitor has," Meyer said. "We don't intend to try to do absolutely everything they do in the marketplace. (But) slightly smaller form factor notebooks and inexpensive notebooks. That is a market segment that we're interested in."

Meyer is obviously referring in part to their Puma platform that was launched earlier this summer. So far Puma notebooks have been slow to hit retail, Newegg for instance currently carries just two Puma-based notebooks, but obviously the new platform will be important to AMD's profitability going forward.

New AMD CEO discusses going after Intel

[anon]

as they can't take down Intel from its current place, AMD tries to find another market where they could start competing from... it's a good move IMO, hope they do well.

[zatoicchi]

hopefully they have a good plan, Amd need to build a better cpu and sell it a lower price just like before when they made the first AtHLON..

[Aurion]

"We're a much smaller company with not nearly the scale that our competitor has" this is a turn over point guys I dont believe he mentioned that clearly !! that way its now MS that has the supreme power in the market

[anon]

that way its now MS that has the supreme power in the market

microsoft making processors?