AMD has no regrets about going fabless

AMD has been fabless for over eight years now as financial difficulties forced to it to spin off it former manufacturing arm into GlobalFoundries. It started in 2009 as a joint-venture with a state-owned investment fund of the Abu Dhabi government but in 2012 AMD gave up its last stake in the foundry.

So is AMD having any regrets about spinning off GlobalFoundries? According to AMD CTO Mark Papermaster, this is not the case:

AMD, on the other hand, doesn't regret spinning off GloFo. Speaking at Merrill Lynch Global Technology and Investment Conference, CTO Mark Papermaster said, that going fab-less has helped AMD focus on chip-design without worrying about manufacturing. Production is no longer a bottleneck for AMD, as it can now put out manufacturing contracts to a wider variety of foundry partners. Its chip-designers aren't limited by the constraints of an in-house fab, and can instead ask external fabs to optimize their nodes for their chip-designs, Papermaster said. 14 nm FinFET has added a level of standardization to the foundry industry.

Via: TechPowerUp