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ARM designs the "IP core" of the processor but doesn't fab anything themselves. AMD brings their own SOC design and fab process.

• rayiner 13y ago
  AMD is fabless, so what they bring is an SOC design. But what can they offer in an SOC other companies can't? I guess Hypertransport?
  • dman 13y ago
    System level design, integration with gpgpu. Inspite of being dwarfed by Intel in the x86 space I would imagine AMD has the engineering bandwidth to compete with the current arm based designers - qualcomm and samsung.
    • rayiner 13y ago
      Rumor is that Apple's design team is bigger than AMD's at this point.
      • dman 13y ago
        Apple is in a league of their own.
      • stusmall 13y ago
        Apple isn't thinking about entering the OEM SoC market though.
  • butThenAgain 13y ago
    Perhaps they are fabless for the moment, but that might not last forever. See here: http://m.bizjournals.com/albany/stories/2006/06/19/daily53.html?page=all&r=full http://m.bizjournals.com/albany/stories/2006/06/19/daily53.h... http://finance.yahoo.com/news/-1-Billion-In-NYS-Funding-For-twst-1922698798.html http://finance.yahoo.com/news/-1-Billion-In-NYS-Funding-For-... http://www.saratoga.com/news/amd-chip-plant.cfm http://www.saratoga.com/news/amd-chip-plant.cfm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther_Forest_Technology_Campus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther_Forest_Technology_Campus http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/other/display/20130904235756_Globalfoundries_Authorized_to_Expand_Its_Fab_8_in_New_York_State.html http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/other/display/20130904235756_Gl...
    • cswelin 13y ago
      Those are all old sources, if I recall correctly AMD spun off there fabs to GlobalFoundries then recently divest their stake.
  • zanny 13y ago
    Radeon gpu cores. We already see Qualcomm Adreno gpus doing well and they are a fork of old ATI blueprints that AMD sold them.