Update AMD says that Dirk was misquoted. His original quote mentioned radically transforming the way wafers are manufactured, but nothing about spinning off fabs. Throw in some drinks, scantily clad fab workers, and the thin air of Austin's high altitude, and you can see how things came out the way they did. We still stand by our original story.
AMD JUST CONFIRMED our story about spinning off its fabs. Since it was uttered by newly-fabbed CEO Dirk Meyer in an Austin American Statesman interview, it is going to be hard to spin.
Buried about halfway down the article, here, is the golden quote, "And Meyer says the company is just months away from a major restructuring that will spin the manufacturing operations off into a separate company, with new ownership." If you have been paying attention, the likely suitor is from Abu Dhabi, but that may have changed.
In any case, it was a done deal last winter, it is a done deal now, there is just paperwork left to do. AMD has been busily prepping all close partners, upstream, downstream and governmental, about the shift for a long time, so expect things to go pretty smoothly.
Fire up the Bloomberg terminals. Today is going to be a fun one, even if the best names are already spoken for. µ 作者: 三毛妮 时间: 2008-7-25 07:22
负担不起当然要卖作者: superlee01 时间: 2008-7-25 16:44
不是A要倒闭了吧?
惨了
天下要大乱了!作者: runrun 时间: 2008-7-25 16:46
卖给中国ZF最好,不要去做什么龙芯了,双营。作者: hdht 时间: 2008-7-25 16:46
提示: 作者被禁止或删除 内容自动屏蔽作者: 九泉苍月 时间: 2008-7-25 17:38
别大惊小怪,该合资的合资该卖的卖,AMD的亏损大部分来自近期折旧和溢价收购,既然负担不起Fab的成本,不如放弃,这也是AMD唯一能放弃的东西了。
Nvidia Corp.之所以不做Fab也是玩不起这个,把这个的成本转嫁到了TSMC头上,由于没走什么错误,自然平步青云来到Fabless的顶端作者: julian110 时间: 2008-7-25 19:02
连Intel都快玩不起了,后边的FAB都要找3*合作了作者: Jason21 时间: 2008-7-25 19:56