Well not completely stranger to that. Theres a bit restructuring their R&D departement for CPU (deeply or not ), they send 150 engineers to Synopsis for take care of their licence IP and at same time gain access to the IP level of Finfet and library, design from Synopsis.
As for the "alliance " with Samsung, let say it is more a possible rumor, even if term of alliance is not really well choose... Samsung and GloFo are allready ally on FAB and process R&D since years.. Synopsis design is used and common on Samsung fundry.. the rest is a little bit only a rumor for now.
I can imagine for their Opteron ARM 64bits ( ARMv8 ) SOC, thats a good probability, as for their x86 cpu lineup, i dont know.
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