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AMD and Fujitsu Spin Off Static Memory Giant
prostoalex writes "AMD and Fujitsu will form a new memory company. While corporations typically form new spinoffs every time you turn around, this one is different, claims ZDNet, since it looks like AMD will be splitting into two companies, one dealing in the microprocessor market, another in memory."
AFAIK Flash-AMD subsidizes currently a lot of AMD's processor business, so current part of AMD that makes Processors seems to be confident in it's future to take this step.
And remember that AMD is much-much more than Athlon/Hammer, they make lot's of different processors.
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That's rather funny but from my experiance the AMD processors almost run as well as their version number. They could never get away with that in ram though, it's apples to oranges.
There are more indepth articles about this here and here. The latter article discussed the motivation for the move in a little more depth:
"This is only going to help AMD and Fujitsu become as stronger competitor and move up in market position," said Krewell. "They are in better shape to challenge Intel because they appear as one stronger brand, rather than as two lesser brands."
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And what I feel is a better article.
AMD is much bigger player in Flash than in CPU -business.
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AMD make flash. Nowhere in the article does it talk about Static RAM.
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If you're referring to the heat generated by Athlons.. Intel overtook AMD recently and the P4 now radiates more heat, it just dissipates it better.
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