IBM now making Fusion chips for AMD

Posted on Monday, February 06 2012 @ 22:06 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
AMD also disclosed at last week's analyst meeting that it has begun manufacturing A-series "Trinity" Fusion processors at IBM:
Advanced Micro Devices has disclosed at an analyst event that it had begun manufacturing of its chips at IBM's facilities. The partnership is believed to ensure AMD's ability to supply its next-generation A-series Fusion chips code-named "Trinity" to PC makers and be in position to compete against Intel Corp.'s Core i-series future products.

"We win together, we have partnership in good times and in difficult times. What we are seeing is a focus on execution running test chips through the [production] line to gather the data [...] with partners from IBM and Globalfoundries," said Rory Read, chief executive officer of AMD.
Source: X-bit Labs


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