By: Dummond D. Slow (mental.delete@this.protozoa.us), February 26, 2021 11:01 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
Anon (no.delete@this.spam.com) on February 25, 2021 10:11 am wrote:
> Dummond D. Slow (mental.delete@this.protozoa.us) on February 25, 2021 9:17 am wrote:
> > That would likely only make the licensing deal even less profitable to AMD.
> > Look at what ARM revenue is. Now ponder that the business AMD would have would only be a fraction.
>
> Look at what AMD's revenue was when the best they had was Bulldozer,
Even that was more than what would be possible through licensing at best.
They probably got a very special deal for the chinese Zen licensing and they still backed out of that quickly because it was a very bad deal done in desperate circumstances.
> look at ARM revenue when the best they had were crap in order cores.
>
> AMD offering an ARM core would make sense to get that fat revenue that
> comes with high end cores and is not available to ARM right now.
> Dummond D. Slow (mental.delete@this.protozoa.us) on February 25, 2021 9:17 am wrote:
> > That would likely only make the licensing deal even less profitable to AMD.
> > Look at what ARM revenue is. Now ponder that the business AMD would have would only be a fraction.
>
> Look at what AMD's revenue was when the best they had was Bulldozer,
Even that was more than what would be possible through licensing at best.
They probably got a very special deal for the chinese Zen licensing and they still backed out of that quickly because it was a very bad deal done in desperate circumstances.
> look at ARM revenue when the best they had were crap in order cores.
>
> AMD offering an ARM core would make sense to get that fat revenue that
> comes with high end cores and is not available to ARM right now.
