If you haven’t had a chance to read through The Tech Report’s breakdown of AMD’s Financial Analyst Day and the speech that the new CEO Rory Read gave. Rory replaced long time CEO Dirk Meyer at the helm of AMD after the large shake up AMD underwent late in 2011 and this was one of his first chances to describe his vision for AMD and the market in 2012. He spend a fair amount of time on low power processors and ultramobile form factors, describing his vision of AMD outflanking Intel at that market segment. With a history of lower pricing and recent low power processor families, he sees Brazos as a much better alternative than Intel’s Ultrabook and especially the anemic Atom line. He also discussed ARM, not only as a possible future competitor for what used to be be AMD and Intel’s exclusive turf as well as possible future competition for AMD’s planned SoC products. Read on for more.
"AMD has a new management team and a new direction. They recently shared their vision for the company’s future, and we were there, listening and then chatting with new CTO Mark Papermaster. Read on for our report."
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