Llano is being produced! Time for some burglary!
The short story, you can read it in this press release, is that the Wafer Purchase Agreement between AMD and Global Foundries has changed. AMD used to pay per wafer, as is the industry norm for dealing with foundries, and they still do for 45nm wafers. On 32nm wafers, AMD is now paying per good chip, something that is never done, even when things are horrifically bad. On top of that, AMD also takes a $492 million non-cash gain in Q1 relating to Global Foundries, the Chartered Semiconductor acquisition, and how that deal is structured. |
NEWS TOMORROW?!?!?Whatever the real reasons are, they will likely be answered during a call AMD has for the financial community Monday morning.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!Originally Posted by Toransu;12993257
I get the feeling that this'll mean the end of "unlockable" processors, since they're not taking any "bad" chips to be reborn into dual/quad/(most possibly)hexa-core processors.
amd has a signed agreement with glofo to use more of their fabs capacity in the future ... amd cant back up out of such contract easily ... and anyway glofo is amd's past foundry .. so they know alot about this business ...Originally Posted by fools79;12993940
Well I really hope that the 28nm process is a really nice high quality performance wise, I remember hearing oh the 68xx's will be great and will be 28nm, then is was supposed to be the 69xx's. Now AMD is only willing to pay by the good chip? Oh yeah it's been an extra year and now their still not really all that confident with the production quality?
Amd please don't let your self get distracted, yes... yes... I know that bulldozer is running late, fine things happen. But if a chip fab can't live up to your requirements just move on, I don't want my upcoming 7xxx card to end up being your take on a 590.
doesnt mean that at all ... it could mean that amd was losing valueable money and since they own 30% shares of glofo they negotiated a deal because they have a contract to use glofo more and more in the future .. so glofo said why not .. they are a customer we wont lose anyway ....Originally Posted by rocketman331;13017297
If they're buying per die instead of wafer that's bad news.
Manufacturers purchase per wafer (based on high yield), if they're buying per die I assume yield is bad and will correlate with higher costs; I hope I'm wrong.
Originally Posted by killeraxemannic ![]() Sweet this just means that AMD is finding a way to make the BD chips cheaper for consumers! |