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 With AMD's bad profitability over the past few years, it has been decided that they will look at exiting or selling off all but their processor and graphic processing divisions.
In this first quarter of 2008, AMD reported losses of $358 million on revenue of $1.505 billion and have reported losses for six straight quarters, dating back to the
third quarter of 2006. While the past few years haven't been good to AMD, this may not be a bad thing. If they are dedicated to just their processing and graphics lines something good may come out of it. Either that, or when Intel debuts it's new processor, based on AMD's current core design, the company will really fall on hard times. It's interesting that even though Intel's current processors have an inferior core design compared to AMD the overall performance has still been faster, which has been a disappointment to those hoping to see the new AMD quad-core processors give Intel some serious competition, but so far all they've done is come close to matching them. Although, I believe Intel's current design is very close to it's limit so that might give AMD some advantage in the future. The Intel vs AMD benchmarks I've seen around the web honestly don't have that much of a gap in performance between the two companies. So that this point it's sort of a dead heat. Personally I'm not a "fan boy" of either side, I go for price vs
performance. In most cases AMD has usually outdone Intel in that regard. Although with Intel's latest chips beating AMD in performance,
that could change in the future. It would be nice to see AMD overcome it's current problems and rocket back into first place, but it just may not happen at any time in the near future. As a side note: In the past Intel motherboards have generally cost more, but in the last few years boards have fallen fairly even price wise. So this comes into play when buying parts for a new system.
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