AMD was forced to prioritize development, transfered the debut of processors with ARM-architecture K12 in 2017. The good news is that the processors with the x86-based architecture Zen come in 2016, and spread to many price segments. This year, the main news from AMD remains the memory type HBM.
Experts Kerrisdale Capital Investment took the liberty to assume that in 2020, AMD will become bankrupt, despite all efforts to restructuring and cost optimization. In fact, it is shrinking budget for development does not allow the company to offer new products on a regular basis and change priorities in accordance with the market situation.
According to them, in 2008, AMD cut costs and attempt to focus on market segments with growth potential anything good for the PC segment is over. AMD processors for laptops sold well, but to create processors for tablets and smartphones, the company is not ready due to strong competition and low profit margins in this segment.
In the field of development of new lithography technology AMD is strongly dependent on its former production unit represented by GlobalFoundries. The more complex manufacturing process, the fewer contractors able to offer it to their customers. And if in the case of the 14-nm technology, GlobalFoundries by Samsung managed to beat the competition in the face of TSMC.
The authors of the analytical report claim that the rate of AMD on the technology of virtual reality can not justify itself, because the size of the financial impact will be significant only after some time, and the company urgently needed source of stable income. In this segment, a greater chance of success for companies with a lot of money that they are able to without much effort to invest for the long term.
AMD has since 2008 reduced its budget on research and development by 50%, and now it is a tenth of the funds that spending for similar purposes by Intel. It should be noted, however, that Intel noticeable part of the budget is spent on the development of new technological processes.
Contracts for the supply of AMD for game consoles Microsoft and Sony experts also consider illusory victory. . AMD went on their conditions, but the profitability of its operations in this segment, according to some estimates, will never exceed 6%.