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Bloodbath for AMD at the Stock-Markets, Company Struggles to Survive
Sure, the graphics division brings some cheer for the company but seriously, to what extant is it helping the company alongside a marginally increased market-share with processors? Not much. AMD struggles to survive as stocks plummet below the $6 mark at NASDAQ index, which was priced at $15 /share only a year ago; this is the lowest value for the AMD stock since 2002.
AMD’s survival is crucial for the entire computing industry as it keeps check on inflating prices by major players such as Intel and NVIDIA (who themselves are seeing bad days at the stock-markets these days). It has immense engineering potential to take on major players and force them to slash their prices. There are talks already doing rounds of CEO Hector Ruiz planning to quit.
Market forces and mal-informed consumerism are also to blame. A person chooses competitive brands over AMD products mainly because they’re supplied and marketed better, sure Intel and NVIDIA do make better products in many categories but ‘better’ is a very relative value, how much better and for how much more (price) is something that keeps fluctuating, again fluctuations are mainly triggered by competition that AMD brings into the market. In other words, thank AMD for making NVIDIA sell GeForce 8800 GT for as low as $120 or better still, giving rise to a whole new SKU, the GeForce 9800 GTX+, with the ‘+’ matching the red cross on first-aid kits.
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