No this is very dangerous! If AMD wants to survive it should not give up its fabs. Charter and the other foundry companies like TSMC, UMC, Grace have their own competitive pressures, and while AMD will be a prefered customer, the foundry fabs will not be totally dedicated to AMD. Put another way by having their own fabs, AMD can maintain bleeding edge process technology customized to its needs, with high logic performance and high density, and a very low manufacturing defect rate suitable for microprocessors. This is what keeps AMD competitive with Intel. The foundry companies often focus on older but more profitable process technology sweetspot that would not be competitive. Keep in mind what killed Transmeta! They initially used IBM process and did well for awhile. Then they switched to TSMC, got nailed by process reliability problems, delaying their next-gen product and were crucified in the market place. The rest is history (as is Transmeta).
I had a compact flash survive the washing machine and drier (permanent press cycle)! The Yellowstone photos came out okay in the end, and that flash card still works. The labels got a little rubbed off though.
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No this is very dangerous! If AMD wants to survive it should not give up its fabs. Charter and the other foundry companies like TSMC, UMC, Grace have their own competitive pressures, and while AMD will be a prefered customer, the foundry fabs will not be totally dedicated to AMD. Put another way by having their own fabs, AMD can maintain bleeding edge process technology customized to its needs, with high logic performance and high density, and a very low manufacturing defect rate suitable for microprocessors. This is what keeps AMD competitive with Intel. The foundry companies often focus on older but more profitable process technology sweetspot that would not be competitive. Keep in mind what killed Transmeta! They initially used IBM process and did well for awhile. Then they switched to TSMC, got nailed by process reliability problems, delaying their next-gen product and were crucified in the market place. The rest is history (as is Transmeta).
I had a compact flash survive the washing machine and drier (permanent press cycle)! The Yellowstone photos came out okay in the end, and that flash card still works. The labels got a little rubbed off though.