[Soekris] LinuxDevices.com News: AMD BURYING GEODE?

[Jim Thompson]

Dave is right.  That part is used in so many designs that AMD would  
be hard pressed to cancel it with a less that three year "you can  
still buy parts" period.

The "design center" closure is likely about putting all the wood  
behind one arrowhead, focusing on Opteron and the war that Intel has  
re-engaged in.

(Intel just sold its Xscale parts to Marvel, in order to go head to  
head with AMD over desktop/server/notebook parts.)

(But it would be nice if Soren would release something with the same  
hole patterns, etc that was  an "update", as Dave allows.)

Jim

On Jul 20, 2006, at 7:58 AM, spoggle wrote:

> On 7/19/06, Christopher Hoover <ch at murgatroid.com> wrote:
>> AMD BURYING GEODE?
>>
>> AMD will soon close its Geode embedded processor design center in  
>> Longmont,
>> Colo. Although the plant closure appears to be AMD's second move  
>> away from
>> the embedded market this summer, the company assures us that they  
>> remain
>> "committed to the embedded market." Read this informative news  
>> item for more
>> about the popular Geode's future.
>>
>> http://ct.enews.deviceforge.com/rd/cts? 
>> d=207-130-2-28-947-11140-0-0-0-1
>
> I don't think it's too much to worry about right now - the Geode line
> has not kept up with the likes of Via and the development money AMD
> has is going into desktop processors, clearly their highest volume of
> sales.
>
> The thing to be scared of is AMD announcing the end of production, and
> they won't do that until the volume drops and they won't do it without
> reasonable notice.
>
> I do hope that this announcement spurs Soekris into releasing more
> powerful boards based on non-Geode parts.  It's been three years since
> the 4801 shipped and it's showing its age.
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