AMD to enter SSD market

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story imageAMD will start selling a range of SSD products under the Radeon brand later this year. However, with the flash chips sources from Toshiba (19nm) and controller sourced from Indilinx (Barefoot 3) AMD isn't exactly bringing anything new to the table.
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What is next... (Score: 2, Interesting)

by axsdenied@pipedot.org on 2014-08-08 07:16 (#2S5)

So far they have CPU, GPU, RAM and now HD as well. Next is probably AMD motherboard and then we can have a complete AMD computer...

Re: What is next... (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-08-08 10:52 (#2S6)

Which is totally dependent on outside partners to build. If Toshiba winds up getting a great deal to supply someone like Apple with flash, guess who gets squeezed out? I might buy one or two for home use, but I'm not sure I'd go beyond that because of concerns over supply.

Re: What is next... (Score: 1)

by nightsky30@pipedot.org on 2014-08-08 11:11 (#2S8)

I didn't know about the RAM. Relying on others to supply parts while not bringing anything new up to the plate sounds like a mediocre-bad idea.

Re: What is next... (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-08-08 13:13 (#2S9)

Mediocre is right but it's certainly not a new practice. Clevo make a ton of laptop cases which they sell to smaller 'custom' laptop companies. They're largely the same save for branding and specs (though when you're using the same boards how much changes?). It's amazing, really. Alienware Area 51-M is the same as the Sager 5660. Sager rebrands clevo, Dell rebrands Sager.

Bad strategy? (Score: 1)

by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-08-11 21:45 (#3T7)

I'm not totally convinced AMD's management knows what it is doing. This sounds like an also - ran strategy. That said, I seem to always root for the underdog, so I hope they make it.