OF COURSE Global Foundries is out hunting for new customers -- that was THE WHOLE POINT of the split, to get other sources of revenue to help pay for those horrendously expensive fabs. And if Global Foundaries wants to get any customers, it d*mn well better convince them they will be on an equal footing with AMD.

And, yeah, Jerry Saunders did say that "real men own fabs". Fabs back then did not cost several billion dollars.
Only Intel has the money to go it alone now.

i think its stupid ... Very earlier it was in neas that AMD will take an RND role and its designs will be sent to some GloFo type caster so AMD wont have take responsibilities of bad yields etc and concentrate on CPU design. If it happened like this news where will they get RND brains !?! to shrink technology !?!

Seems like GloFo are moving up into the Vertical Virtualisation Stack for Supply of Controlling Sources. That is Jealously, Zealously Guarded Unprotected Territory that Exercises Power with the Distribution of Globalised and Purloined Wealth Certificates/Bearer Bonds of National Debt/Squandered Credit.

Cost increasing move
Prices continue to dip
Middle gets thinner

Wasn't that Fun Independence Day? TV & Falling Prices, Roxanne in RED. Now as reality stops swirling around, maybe AMD engineers arn't as HOT as Proliferation of Product implies. Maybe Global Foundries arn't that 32nm Hip.

Seems like cost increasing move, yet prices continue to dip. Something in middle gets thinner, DAMMIT.

vondrashek

Only 12 bureaucratic layers? Gee, what a relief! Probably only 3 of those are actually useful, the rest are just to reward good little butt boys.

And 17? Geez, AMD, do you really need that many just to design a few marginally okay chips?

I'm just wondering what Jerry has to say about all this AMD stuff lately. The purchase of ATI, the fab spin-off, etc.

"Jon Carvill, Glofo's head of communications, that it would have "no impact" on his firm and that ultimately this was an AMD issue."

Sound like: "who care about AMD now that we are up and running"