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Re:AMD lands Google, Twitter as customers with newest server... by Ocysellus on Thursday August 08, 2019 @09:14PM (#20650514)
What's the context for them firing off their Linux platform devs in ~2013?
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Re:AMD lands Google, Twitter as customers with newest server... by Buraksr on Friday August 09, 2019 @04:37PM (#20658068)
I would say falling revenue would be the biggest driver here, in 2010 AMD had annual revenue of 6.49 Billion USD, by 2013 this number had fallen to 5.29 Billion. It continued to slide to a low of 3.99 Billion in 2015.

[0] - https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AMD/amd/revenue

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