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lmm on Jan 23, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Lenovo Agrees to Buy IBM Server Business for $2.3 ...

Are people still buying AMD processors? My impression was that they really had collapsed over the last 2-3 years.

(Not that I believe ARM will win; x86 still has a huge compatibility advantage, and phone batteries get bigger every year)

abjorn on Jan 23, 2014 [–]

Not hardly, especially not with AMD powering the current line up of gaming consoles.

jfb on Jan 23, 2014 | [–]

Which is how many units per year, exactly? A piece of a declining business is a pretty thin reed to hang your future survival as a company on.

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