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Default [Anand] AMD and Intel Settle Their Differences: AMD Gets To Go Fabless
Here's the interpretation of the recent Intel-AMD settlement for the techies in us.

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It’s amazing how much the world changes before breakfast.

At 6am Pacific this morning, a joint Intel & AMD press release hit our inboxes like a nuclear bomb: AMD and Intel are settling their differences. And just like that, the CPU landscape as we know it has significantly changed.
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Out of this settlement come four major things for AMD:

1. $1.25 billion in cold, hard cash.
2. Intel will stop doing things that they and AMD agree they shouldn’t be doing.
3. The right to not have to produce x86 CPUs in-house. AMD can go fabless.
4. The right to have their x86 processors fabricated anywhere of AMD’s choosing.
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AMD has wanted out of the fab game for quite some time, but the cross-licensing agreement prevented that. Now AMD is free to sell off its stake of Global Foundries to Abu Dhabi’s Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC), who already owns the other half of GF. The result will be that ATIC will own a foundry like they’ve always wanted, and AMD will be rid of the task of operating a foundry like they’ve always wanted.

This in turn is going to have two immediate short-term benefits for AMD. The first of course is more cash; selling their share in ATIC is going to net the company a fair bit of cash and cash equivalents. The second of which is that AMD had to absorb some of GF’s losses; they would have turned a profit last quarter for example if owning part of GF didn’t cause them to take a $100mil loss. So AMD is going to have more cash on hand, and they’re going to further resolve their long-standing cash bleed. By no means does this make them rich (they still are up to their eyes in debt), but this opens up a great deal of liquidity to invest in new processor designs. After all, they’ve gone fabless, R&D is where the bulk of their investments will be.
I see soo many good things for the AMD enthusiast community in this event that I don't even know where to start...

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put the source (link to the article) in the post as well mate
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Thanks god. It was getting old reading all these lawsuit threads.
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AMD is going to release some cool stuff in the next year or two. I can't wait! Intel/AMD squashing the beef FTW!!!!!!
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Wonderful. Can't wait to see what AMD pulls out of their hat with this change.
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everyone at amd just did a happy dance. things should become a nice bit easier for them for awhile anyways.

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My portfolio just did the happy dance. Too bad I didnt buy a whole lot of stock, and I bought it at $4 Oh well, still making money
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Very cool.

Maybe now we can get back to some healthy competition.
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