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GlobalFoundries was spin off from the AMD fabrication units so I don't think they got an immediate advantage with them. Regardless of that AMD is a much smalle
by pkd 10y ago
GlobalFoundries was spin off from the AMD fabrication units so I don't think they got an immediate advantage with them.
Regardless of that AMD is a much smaller company than Intel (~9k employees vs ~100k employees) so it is quite a remarkable feat that they have managed to stay in the competition for so long.
- matt_wulfeck 10y agoI speculate that they could have been extinguished years ago by intel, if it weren't for their fears of anti-competition and monopoly. Either way, I predict both will slowly be eaten by GPU-driven processing and ARM desktops. It's going to be a very tough secular cycle for CISC chip makers in the coming decade.