{"id":4820,"date":"2009-11-12T14:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T12:40:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"amd-anticipates-long-overdue-profit-in-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/4820-amd-anticipates-long-overdue-profit-in-2010","title":{"rendered":"AMD anticipates long overdue profit in 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a few years since AMD has yielded annual profit, but the chip maker believes that it will do so in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>The company is currently swimming in around $3.2 billion of debt, but plans to make significant steps to reduce this in the coming year. <br \/>CEO Dirk Meyer has optimistically stated that the company will become a &ldquo;cash flow generating machine&rdquo; according to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fudzilla.com\/content\/view\/16399\/1\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Fudzilla.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The company will stick to consumer orientated products, as it has illustrated with the recently released HD 5000 series, not to mention the Phenom II CPU range.<\/p>\n<p>Meyer also made a subtle reference to Intel&rsquo;s recent anti-trust violations &#8220;I&#8217;m looking forward to a future in which our ability to succeed as a business is governed by the quality of our products and the quality of our customer relationships. I can tell you that hasn&#8217;t always been true.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With little sign of Nvidia&rsquo;s next range of consumer orientated graphics cards, the market is wide open for AMD going into this years holiday period. This should yield a promising start for the company in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chip maker optimistic for next year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}