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I kinda missed the boat on this story, I was of the mindset that cpu game was over, and Intel had an insurmountable advantage in 14 nanometer fabrication, and b

I kinda missed the boat on this story, I was of the mindset that cpu game was over, and Intel had an insurmountable advantage in 14 nanometer fabrication, and basically their scale meant AMD could never compete again. How has AMD managed to a comeback like this? Edit; reading wikipedia, seems like it was the fact AMD could outsource 14nm finfet fabrication to GlobalFoundries that they're able to do this, since they didn't have to build their own fabrication facility, or could they have done their own fab?

AlphaSite 9y ago
We’ll GloFo is AMDs fab after they spun it out a few years back.
deaddodo 9y ago
Because AMD doesn't handle it's fabrication any longer. It's all done through third-parties (GloFo and Samsung, particularly) whom are competitive against Intel. Intel still has the advantage in that they are vertically integrated, however Samsung is pushing out far more chips/day than Intel and is the lead fab for cutting edge ARM processors. This makes it much more capable of multiparadigm fabbing.
- B1FF_PSUVM 9y ago
  AMD founder Jerry Sanders used to say "Real men have fabs" (i.e. ownership of the whole production chain), and is probably sad that had to be given up for financial reasons. Looking up that phrase gets a history of upsides and downsides, e.g. https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:OxfqymS01qAJ:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/1994-04-10/real-men-have-fabs+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Oxfqym...
wmf 9y ago
Yes, Intel was supposed to be on 10 nm by now but they have fallen behind their roadmap which allowed AMD/GloFo to catch up somewhat.