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(http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=74093&p=irol-govBio&ID=225876)

"Ahmed Yahia Al Idrissi joined the AMD board of directors in November 2012. Yahia currently serves as executive director of Mubadala Industry, where he is responsible for Mubadala’s growing industrial portfolio, which includes metals, mining, utilities, and advanced materials and products. He also leads a number of corporate efforts across the Mubadala portfolio, including: Enterprise Risk Management, Asset Management/Value Creation and Learning & Development. Prior to joining Mubadala, Yahia was a partner at McKinsey & Company, where he co-led the firm’s Principal Investor practice. He was also the managing partner of McKinsey’s Abu Dhabi practice. While at McKinsey, Yahia supported a number of critical Mubadala investments from 2006 through 2009, including the acquisition of AMD’s manufacturing assets and the creation of GLOBALFOUNDRIES. Yahia also consulted for a number of Fortune 500 companies, where the central theme of his work was corporate performance transformations, business building and industrial sector development. Specifically, he worked on issues related to strategy, including acquisitions and post-merger management, divestitures, international expansion and new business development, risk management, operational turnarounds, organizational restructuring and capability building.

Yahia holds a number of board positions, including Emirates Aluminium, Guinea Alumina Corporation, National District Cooling Company, SMN Power Holding Company SAOG, SMN Barka Power Company, Al Rusail Power Company, and Jiangsu Suyadi Tancai Company.

Yahia holds Masters of Science degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Mechanical Engineering/Product Strategy and an engineer’s degree from Ecole Centrale Paris. While at MIT, he received the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board award for academic excellence."

Apparently Amd is aware of his connections and if your smart you'll know the wealth the UAE has, don't be surprised if Amd moves offshore to Dubai. One things for sure these Arabs don't fail so if they have this guy you best believe theirs more to come so its looking like, Amd wants their stock to keep falling to the point everyone sales theirs shares and these Arab investors come in and buy them out they could pull it off I don't think this guy accepted a job to a company that will bankrupt when they can just let stock fall buy it, pump millions of oil money into r&d. Think about it all the top cpu makers are American their isn't any cpu makers that I know of in the middle east even Europe has to wait on intel and amd after they release in the U.S. These guys could just move amd overseas and dominate that market effortlessly, they could sell to anyone so fast intel wouldn't be able to catch up, all those countries, they could create so many jobs and take technology to places that don't have it.

Good thoughts.

This will worry the American power structure.
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Wprime too..anything that requires brute computation power. rolleyes.gif
A cpu is a math coprocessor..and the FX series have slower abacus fingers than earlier AMD abacuses.

When was the last time you calculated pi with your CPU using one core? Literally superpi is it. Wprime is another cherry picked benchmark. It is super floating point heavy. We are moving towards using Gpus for floating point math most of the time now. Welcome to the future. 8350 trounces in integer performance. That's kinda the reason AMD is going with their module architecture. Why improve floating point performacnce when next generation they plan on using HSA to use gpu cores for that?

Also, look at cinebench, the best benchmark for rendering performance.


http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2012/11/06/amd-fx-8350-review/3

Or 3dmark 11, a great gaming benchmark.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/fx-8350-vishera-review,3328-6.html

Or winzip or heavy cored encoding

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/57446-fx-8350-cpu-review-amds-vishera-arrives-11.html

Even Winrar which is poorly threaded the 8350 trounces older amd processors

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/fx-8350-vishera-review,3328-11.html

Why dwell on those kinds of benchmarks when the 8350 smashes the 1100t in everything that people actually do?

The 8350 is at worst slightly worse than a 3570k and at best slightly better than it. The 3570k is better at lightly threaded things and 8350 is better in highly threaded tasks. I would like to point out that new consoles are coming out most likely with more CPU cores so I would expect quad CPUs and above to gain more performance within 2 years.

That being said, intel clearly has the performance crown but don't even try to say that the 8350 doesn't beat bulldozer or phenom ii.
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Sorry for thread jacking guys, back on track, I think that AMD could use whatever cash flow they can get. They really need to get their product line back on a yearly release.
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Yes...They used to be based in Texas and California.

The fact that their headquarters are located in Texas does not automatically make AMD, or most any corporation, a company owned by Texans or USAians. Capital knows no nationality.
    
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orly?
http://www.hwbot.org/image/860119.jpg New cpu (8350)@ 6Ghz
http://www.hwbot.org/image/273767.jpg Old cpu (965BE)@ 5.8Ghz
A CPU's job is to calculate math.The newer chips calculate math slower than the old chips; 3 seconds less within a time frame of 15 seconds is a large margin.This is not improvement.
I'm not "keeping up" with their product launch because..they haven't produced anything better.
LOL, of all the "benchmarks" in the world you choose SuperPI? It isn't relevant at all in any way, shape or form; x87 is outdated and pointless. Look at the graphs here and educate yourself on how AMD has improved over Phenom II: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/697?vs=102 (there are better websites but this one is very simple).
     
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Sorry for thread jacking guys, back on track, I think that AMD could use whatever cash flow they can get. They really need to get their product line back on a yearly release.

Why do you say slightly worse? It's marginally worse, as in a tier behind. At best the 8350FX is around Sandy Bricge. At worst, it's worse than a Phenom II. I'm not saying it's a bad chip, but it's not as good as you make it sound. I'd go with a 3570K any day.
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People come up with the silliest ideas.

It clearly says he a representative of Mubadala Development. That company owns 19.4% of AMD. He's also the second representative of that company, so it looks like Mubadala is taking more control of AMD to try to get them back to profitability.
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Why do you say slightly worse? It's marginally worse, as in a tier behind. At best the 8350FX is around Sandy Bricge. At worst, it's worse than a Phenom II. I'm not saying it's a bad chip, but it's not as good as you make it sound. I'd go with a 3570K any day.

No, at best it beats an i7-3770k, a CPU which happens to be a good 100$ more expensive than an FX-8350 as well.
    
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way to go AMD.....
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Why do you say slightly worse? It's marginally worse, as in a tier behind. At best the 8350FX is around Sandy Bricge. At worst, it's worse than a Phenom II. I'm not saying it's a bad chip, but it's not as good as you make it sound. I'd go with a 3570K any day.

I literally just gave you like 5 links that showed it competing with a 3770k in highly threaded and in lightly threaded it was slightly worse than 2500k. If you want to further discuss this it is fine. Please just pm me or open another thread and pm me to tell me to post there so we can stop taking this thread over. I don't want to talk about it here because this thread is about the news article not about a chair being appointed and really has nothing to do with piledriver or ivy bridge.
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