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AMD get $1.25 billion..
Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 5:53 am
by DRuM
Re: AMD get $1.25 billion..
Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 11:26 am
by PhoeniX
Where's the 'Intel Inside.. our bank account' joke?
Re: AMD get $1.25 billion..
Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 3:00 pm
by Kills On Site
What does fabless mean?
Re: AMD get $1.25 billion..
Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 5:20 pm
by Plan B
I hadn't heard the term myself, and wondered what it meant.
Then
wikipedia was my friend.
It's amazing what you can learn just by googling shit.
Re: AMD get $1.25 billion..
Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 5:55 pm
by Kills On Site
I did look at that, just wondering if anyone had a definition in their own words. So does that mean AMD is just designing chips now and not marketing them or what exactly. How does this change things for the consumer is what I am asking.
Re: AMD get $1.25 billion..
Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 6:17 pm
by bitWISE
It could potentially change a lot. Going fabless means AMD will no longer own the fabrication plants. AMD would design the chips but rather than building them themselves, they will send the specs to a third-party to complete the order. Like a game company sending out the gold DVD to a publisher.
So, we could potentially see a shift in quality when GF cuts costs to stay afloat or AMD shifts to a new company. Either way, I'd probably skip the next generation of chips until solid reviews came in. Then again, I've been in the Intel camp since Core 2.
Re: AMD get $1.25 billion..
Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 7:26 pm
by obsidian
nVidia hasn't been building their own chips and contracting it out to eVGA, BFG, etc. for years.
Re: AMD get $1.25 billion..
Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 1:48 am
by Tsakali
which i don't fully understand because most companies that can be in the position to control a product from start to finish would choose to do so. I can understand nvidia starting off small, but they are now clearly in the position to do it like the big boys do.