[Cialug] AMD's Spin Off

[Matthew Nuzum]

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 8:45 AM, Daniel A. Ramaley
<daniel.ramaley at drake.edu> wrote:
> Does
> anyone think AMD is eventually just going to outsource production to
> the lowest bidder? I mean, once production is a separate company, there
> is no reason to continue doing business with them exclusively or even
> at all.

Yes, but...

Microprocessor manufacture tends to be on the cutting edge of chip
development. So more likely it will allow the creation of a business
who focuses on a major vendor (AMD) but is also agile enough to start
offering services to other organizations.

There's an old saying that we do in house what we're specialists at
and we outsource that which we're not. So AMD may not have had the
ability to get maximum value/revenue from their fab facilities so
they're spinning it off into an organization that can specialize on
creating a profitable business.

I'm hoping at least. I love the competition and shakeup we got when
AMD beat Intel to 1Ghz and then subsequently brought 64b to general
computers. I'd hate to see them become less competitive now.

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Matthew Nuzum
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