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A New AMD Licensing Deal Could Create More x86 Rivals For Intel (pcworld.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the new-arch-enemies dept.

angry tapir quotes a report from PCWorld: AMD has announced a plan to license the design of its top-of-the-line server processor to a newly formed Chinese company, creating a brand-new rival for Intel. AMD is licensing its x86 processor and system-on-chip technology to a company called THATIC (Tianjin Haiguang Advanced Technology Investment Co. Ltd.), a joint venture between AMD and a consortium of public and private Chinese companies. AMD is providing all the technology needed for THATIC to make a server chip, including the CPUs, interconnects and controllers. THATIC will be able to make variants of the x86 chips for different types of servers. AMD is much smaller than Intel, and licensing offers it an easy way to expand the installed base of AMD technology. The resource-strapped company will also generate licensing revenue in the process, said Jim McGregor, principal analyst at Tirias Research.

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  1. Re: Yeah but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Intel chips are obsolete.. AMD's fused cpu/gpu architecture with hbm/hbm2, HSA, asynch shaders new generation gpu's, etc..etc..etc.. is going to bleed Intel big time..

    Intel was able to put a lot of money to make its chips fast.. but for a high price.. which morons always payed the huge profit slice.. Now AMD can make faster chips for a fraction of the price.. now that AMD has 14 nm, 16 nm, and son 7nm chip foundry technology..

    I bought at $1.78, and I will retire in 5 years with the profit I already started making.. while my Intel stock has always been around the $20.00 to for the first time lately $30.00... A very lack laster performance compared to APPLE, Qualcom, etc..

    Now it is amd turn.. I'l sit and relax seing my AMD go 10x plus over the next years...

    Todays AMD is not the AMD from yesterday.. noe it has all the teeth, while bully Intel is years behind AMD's latest architectures..

    Intel is just a cpu company, it was never able to build a high end gpu because it does not have high end gpu technology..remember Intels Larrabbee gpu fiasco..?

    AMD has a lot of new surprises to come..