AMD to outsource/sell Fabs (confirmed)

[Rammsteiner]

I hate it when people don't use their brain before posting.

You know that when you talk out of your ass you dont need to use your brain right?

Also it's not good if you hate your self.

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 $.

Germany is globally indeed not the cheapest option to produce. But Germany is by far not expensive. Hell, even NL is already going to be more expensive.

Im not sure but Norwegian/Sweden/Denmark would be more expensive as well. Also, maybe it was cheaper to produce in Germany and ship from there around Europa instead of producing in China and ship it all back.

It's bad to sell in dollars, but producing in dollars might be just as expensive at the very same time.

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.

I think the new owner would be more than happy to produce AMD chips since they've a guaranteed customer. Also, I dont think AMD sells their fab to the first person they meet. I think their will be a contract at least binding the fab to produce x years y quantity.

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.

Depends on the capacity you got to produce for said product. If they've multiple processes around they've a widespread income. Just like farmers basicly.

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.

We were that far Sherlock. Now the question of more importance was, did AMD produce max capacity 24/7 or not?

You can search how much a new FAB costs , add in depreciation , labour deals , etc and you can put a very rough estimate.

Because theory is better than practice? There are so manu uncontrollable variables in there, that's just rubbish if you go that way it is.

Why not wait and see before making such absolute claims.

Well, isnt it true then?

Yes we'll have to wait and see for the result, but the goal is pretty much clear, no?