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You seem to have forgotten where AMD was 10 years ago. Company was circling the drain but they should have invested heavily in the software stack for hardware they could barely afford to design? Brilliant strategy. Now's the time to invest because they finally have the resources. The ai train is not going anywhere anytime soon

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It would have paid for itself a hundred times over in short order. And if they had started ten years ago they wouldn't have been far behind and the required investment would have initially been much less.

Ten years ago they were valued around $1 a share and teetering on bankruptcy. If they didn't ship Ryzen there would be no AMD today at least not what it was or is.

There are a lot of moving parts around all of this. AMD was still dealing with their fab breakup and fallout.

They basically cut all the fat and some muscle to keep pushing forward so I agree with the other poster that now is the time to focus on software and growth.

If AMD 10 years ago tried to compete with NVIDIA and Intel both simultaneously, would it have survived? They did well to stay in business, and now they can address the AI thing.

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