Quote Originally Posted by Jacky View Post
It's sad that people cannot accept other opinions.
Way to go with the permanent ridiculing and ad hominem attacks...

Actually he is entitled to a fair share of skepticism, anyone else wants to speculate on that topic or provide some facts (i.e. not insults)? What will this do for AMD in the long term? It seems they may lose the ability to fine tune the process if their share in the fab goes down and the Arabs try to serve other customers, no?
On the other hand maybe the fabs will transition faster and more smoothly to new process' because of the cash infusion?
Will they switch to a kind of bulk process to serve other customers?
You can listen to the webcast on the AMD website, in it they say that the NY fab will be build to make bulk chips. About faster transition on fabs maybe but if you look at TSMC % of high end process manufacturing is quite low the main process is 90nm so i'm not 100% that for a foundry bussiness the newer process is always the best. You have to keep in mind that the number of companies that need this kind of process is quite low and this guys already got their fabs for making them.