14 DAY TRIAL // The achievements AMD has been enjoying in the last year have been shaded by the launch and delivery pit stop because of their quad-core lines. These issues prevent AMD from keeping their promise to their customers and force the company to delay the shipment of several products until the first quarter of 2008.
The most affected lines are Phenoms and Barcelonas, the long-awaited and the extremely hated, at the same time. The company even admits that some customers have disagreed with the Quad Core processor delay so it is working on welding on the broken supply chain.
"We haven't delivered our Quad Core consistent with our plan and the Quad Core issues have overshadowed some of our achievements", Dirk Meyer, president and chief operating officer of the company, said. "We know exactly what the issues are with the Quad Core. We know how to fix them and we are hell-bent on getting those fixes into the market as soon as possible."
Drawing the bottom line, the company managed to gain some market share in the year that is about to end, but they also reached high figures in mobile processor shipment (as a matter of fact, studies say that AMD's mobile solution was the year's pick), as well as make the step from 65-nanometer to 45-nanometer technology.
"Since first quarter, we've done a lot of things really well", Meyer said. "We've acquired and quickly expanded our business with another global tier-1 OEM, we've grown our mobile business faster than the red-hot mobile business overall, we've accelerated our platform design wins, we've regained momentum in the CPU channel, we've fully transitioned our CPU output to 65 nanometer technology where the yields are outstanding and we've established a yields baseline for 45 nanometer technology."
This is quite a history, given the fact that AMD is not facing ordinary semiconductor competition, but the greatest CPU maker in the world, the competition, is pretty acid. Despite this, AMD is continually getting slapped by some major mistakes in the recent past. Well, since we are close to the year's end, it would be nice to give them another go and hope that the year to come will be better for them and, consequently, for the computer market.