AMD dismisses numerous open source developers

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by manish_gill • 14 years ago

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nickporter• 14 years ago

"OSRC staff primarily worked to develop the Linux support for AMD's server processor"

It's almost like they want to fail. Do they expect their hardware to run Windows Server or something? Thankfully, the linux developers they're letting go won't have trouble finding jobs.

AMD stocks are unsurprisingly going down (as they have been doing for a while now). See https://www.google.ca/finance?q=NYSE:AMD

raverbashing2• 14 years ago

Unfortunately it seems recovery of AMD now depends on very smart people that are not there anymore

Looks like they gave up after settling with Intel (and some years of bad management)

To be fair Intel also abandoned their idiotic race for MHz which fixed things for them.

Maybe their investment in ARM servers may be a light at the end of the tunnel.

Every computer at a store today is fast enough for 99% of people.

AmVess• 14 years ago

The only problem with AMD going ARM is that everyone and their brother are doing ARM parts, too.

mariusmg• 14 years ago

"Every computer at a store today is fast enough for 99% of people."

Nope. Shitty laptops with 5400 rpm old hdds, 2 GB of ram and old turion/core CPUs will NEVER be "fast enough".

raverbashing2• 14 years ago

It is a good machine for typing school papers and checking Facebook and Youtube

You're overestimating what most people do with their computers

timeshifter• 14 years ago

You say that as though Turions and the Core series were bad. I'm currently running a Phenom 2 x6 3.3GHz.. and guess what? For the majority of tasks, it is no better than my previous Core 2 Quad 2.5GHz. And the Turion processor is no slouch; I know this from experience.

Can these chips power a supercomputer? No. Do 99% of people need them to? Not at all.

gioele• 14 years ago

> Every computer at a store today is fast enough for 99% of people.

The request for smaller, fancier appliances that consume less power will always be there.

Also, the world outside your PC is moving: JIT VMs in the browsers, computationally hard to decode movies, older analogue technologies moving to computers.

There will always be a request for better computers (for various meaning of "better").

JoeAltmaier• 14 years ago

And, as Bill Gates is famously quoted, "640K ought to be enough memory for anybody."

VMG2• 14 years ago

As somebody who recently sent back a notebook because Linux driver support for Radeon is abysmal and now is a happy Intel graphics user, this doesn't surprise me at all. More power to Intel.

jklio• 14 years ago

The same is true for me, I will continue to buy Intel CPUs and motherboards, for both desktop and mobile, until someone else takes open source graphics drivers as seriously as they do.

VMG2• 14 years ago

or even drivers in generals - I'd still prefer closed but working NVIDIA drivers over the crap that ATI puts out

JDShu• 14 years ago

The dismissals have nothing to do with the quality of the radeon graphics drivers, as described by the last paragraph in the article.

compilercreator• 14 years ago

People may also want to check out the official response from AMD over at the Register. Link: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/07/amd_closes_german_os...

Part of the response: " We will continue to support the Linux kernel, and the software development work happening at the OSRC is being consolidated and will be performed at other AMD locations."

rmk2• 14 years ago

This still seems incredibly vague, though.

The radeon driver is part of the kernel, as well... And how exactly they will "consolidate and perform" the cpu-related work in other locations without the people who have been working on it is a bit of a mystery to me.

I don't understand how this is supposed to work. ARM or x86, if they want servers, they will need good Linux support. Who's going to provide that is everyone's guess...

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