Quote Originally Posted by Miss Banana View Post
I hate it when people talk out of their ass, acting as if they know it all.
I hate it when people don't use their brain before posting.
Germany is not labour expensive,
Not exactly cheap either.Compared to the US , I'd think they're more expensive by any standard.
Factor in the social benefits and it's a bad choice to produce in Germany in Euros and sell in $.
you do not know if there will be less tuning options for AMD,
Let's assume a new entity owns the FABs.Will they produce something else there or just stick to AMD CPUs ? Obviously the former option.
If you produce something else you need a different process because different features are needed.
Can anyone afford to have multiple processes tuned for different markets ? Maybe TSMC and UMC.
Otherwise you have a generic one.

you do not know if costs will rise,
So AMD produces CPUs in house ; those are registered at production cost.
AMD sells the FABs and outsource its CPUs : now you pay production cost + profit margin.

Economics 101.
you do not know what investors are willing to give for different fabs.
You can search how much a new FAB costs , add in depreciation , labour deals , etc and you can put a very rough estimate.

All we know is that AMD is going to try to lower their dept by using a strategy not one company has used before.
Why not wait and see before making such absolute claims.