- AMD buys National's Geode unit
- Posted by Jim Stewart on August 6th, 2003
http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2428/030806amdbuy/
What do you make of it?
- Posted by Alex Pavloff on August 6th, 2003
On Wed, 06 Aug 2003 09:03:18 -0700, Jim Stewart <jstewart@jkmicro.com>
wrote:
My boss just said "so next year, we'll be looking for a new processor
because AMD will end-of-life the Geode."
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- Posted by Jim Stewart on August 6th, 2003
Alex Pavloff wrote:
I wasn't going to say anything, but that was my first thought too.
- Posted by Martin Riddle on August 6th, 2003
National has been trying to get out of the PC processor biz for the last few years.
The Geode was to be a niche market (if I recall correctly), but I guess it was a looser.
Its a very competive market, National made the right move.
Cheers
"Jim Stewart" <jstewart@jkmicro.com> wrote in message news:bgr8ve$df9@library2.airnews.net...
- Posted by Alex Pavloff on August 7th, 2003
On Wed, 06 Aug 2003 22:22:17 GMT, "Martin Riddle"
<martinriddle@hotmail.com> wrote:
Right move for their shareholder, perhaps. We'll just have to wait
and see what happens to us Geode users.
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- Posted by Jim Granville on August 7th, 2003
Jim Stewart wrote:
AMD are unlikely to kill ALL Geode variants, soon after they buy
- but they may prune the 'low volume' variants
( ie hope your Geode is not in that pigenhole )
A couple of years out, you might find FAB issues kick in.
Which FAB line the die goes down becomes pretty important.
Anyone know where the Geodes are FAB'd ?
Examples : AMD pulled a FAB line on Lattice, and Philips pulled
one on Xilinx.
