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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
by 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 agoAMD 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...