AMD CEO saying it's a "data center first" company and PC sales will plummet

Posted by haunter 7 hours ago

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Comment by CoolestBeans 4 hours ago

I feel like tech companies across the board are making a pretty massive misstep of ignoring their traditional businesses in favor of AI. Understandably, every percentage point of production not spent in this generational build out is a waste but it feels like corporate Dutch disease. When the build out ends, and it will end, the cost to rebuild the relationship with the consumer may be lethal for a lot of companies.

Apple is probably the company to watch having taken (or otherwise been forced to take) the other strategy.

Comment by nubinetwork 4 hours ago

AMD and Nvidia sure have burned any desire I had left for this industry.

Comment by Neywiny 1 hour ago

I mean what'll you do? Intel only for PCs? Like in disappointed too but I'm not gonna go try to fab the stuff myself.

Comment by WarOnPrivacy 3 hours ago

Tech giant's war on consumers - this may be the most relevant reason to attack data center developments.

Comment by jmercouris 3 hours ago

I think just like how we saw the development of Asics, we'll see crystallized models at some baseline level of competence. Then, we'll probably see a huge glut of excess capacity in the GPU market, and we won't need excessive gluts of RAM and compute.

Comment by mrandish 2 hours ago

I remember when building a cool desktop PC was a fun hobby.

Comment by BatchJob 54 minutes ago

No reason to mince words then. Its clear the tech industry is waging resource wars against the American public. They want our land, our water, our power, and our computing equipment for themselves.

They will stop at nothing to take it all.

Comment by vannevar 6 hours ago

The tech oligarchy not only wants to corner the market in AI, they want to corner the market in compute itself.

Comment by wormius 4 hours ago

oligopoly

* I mean to add to... not replace your use of oligarchy. I realized it looked like i was doing a "ftfy" but not my intent after I posted.

Comment by jsiepkes 6 hours ago

"I see AI and super intelligence [..]"

"super intelligence", well someone has bend a knee apparently.

Comment by AnimalMuppet 6 hours ago

I don't think so. If they had, they wouldn't have said "AI".

I think they're saying "superintelligence" to mean ASI, or at least AGI.

Comment by officeplant 5 hours ago

She's been at the table with trump and the rest of that corrupt squad numerous times.

She didn't bend, she crawled right up in happy and willing.

Comment by naveen99 3 hours ago

eventually data centers will go on fire sales just like downtown commercial real estate.

Comment by expedition32 5 hours ago

After my current PC dies it's probably game over for my gaming hobby. But hey I can use an LLM to order pizza I guess lol.

Comment by Shitty-kitty 5 hours ago

Fret not, the LLM will play games for you while you wait for you pizza.

Comment by secondcoming 4 hours ago

Dumb. There'll be a huge market for home-run LLMs.

Comment by gkhartman 3 minutes ago

Agreed, but Apple already has a huge head start in that market. I could see a CEO choosing not to compete if they know they can't catch up.

I suppose that also implies that AMD thinks it can catch up with Nvidia in the datacenter.

Comment by gdulli 2 hours ago

Streaming services became terrible and there hasn't been a huge market for home Plex server.

Comment by magus_stoopr 6 hours ago

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