▲ | uluyol 5 days ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
They had contracts which forced them to buy Global Foundries even lasting into Zen 2 (I believe they used it with the IO die). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
▲ | 0x457 5 days ago | parent [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Yes, but that contract was a result of going fabless and spinning off GloFo into its own entity longer before Zen. AMD went fabless in 2009 during K8 lifecycle. Since then, we had an entire dynasty of failed bulldozer CPUs. I fail to see how going fabless helped them? What helped them is putting the right people in charge of Zen design and intel fumbling 10nm due to their own hubris. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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