Sighs... all these attempts at sarcasm... how simply purile...

It's simple really. AMD (now GloFo) has invested the resources over the years to develop and institutionalize a culture of continuous incremental improvement. As part of that, they have developed the sampling and analysis tools to support that effort. Their focus is not just on a wafer, but on the process itself over the entire facility. Elementary competitive manufacturing, really. Becoming world class isn't just a matter of PR, it's actually walking the walk and doing the hard work it takes to get there.

As far as telling you specifics, not going to happen. It's a competitive edge. That's business, as you well know. No matter how much you flirt and flutter your baby blues, sweetie.

Also, don't forget that it's more than just GloFo.... IBM is involved deeply. There are some really sharp people involved.

All this about APM is pretty cool. Just so happens I'm gonna build a fab of my own so I can be called a Real Man.

Last question though, can they customize it for me so it brews coffee too and parks my car for me in the mornings?

Hope it doesn't spill the coffee on the wafers.

A decades ago, AMD said "REAL MAN HAVE FABS." Now they have been spun off their fabs to become one of chicken in the semiconductor industries. The chicken that initially founded with fabs, currently did not own fabs included LSI, Conexant and several others.

I think if they still retain their fabs, Intel will likely negotiates about the royalty and forget the royalty payments from AMD since the original IA32 had been expired.

How many times are you going to write spin about APM? How was APM working out on 65nm?

Well at least this time you really nailed AMD/GloFo down on the benefits! "They've done benchmarking".... I guess that's specificity... we don't just have to take their word on it because "they've done benchmarking". Just curious any info ACTUALLY AVAILABLE from their benchmarking?

I'm guessing that's proprietary and we should just take their word on it :)