Quote Originally Posted by informal View Post
AMD will still own a big chunk of the "new" company(44%) while maintaining equal vote right .So it's a win-win.They have no need to directly invest money in process node development as this will be a duty of a new company(Arab part particularly),while they will maintain close relationship with the co-foundry by having one new board member at AMD's board.They will do all things they have done in the past(testing designs,close relationship with guys at the fabs) without the burden of huge debt and need to invest a lot of $ in process development.Fusion and later Bulldozer will be sort of a test-chips for how well the new foundry will function.
Oh..... thank you for clarifying.

At first, I thought that this spin-off was a bad thing, due to AMD losing the close colaboration with the fabs. But I guess that this fear was unfounded. Now, I really want to see what AMD can start doing without as much debt.