AMD to make “significant announcement” tomorrow
AMD just issued a release saying that president and CEO Dirk Meyer will be making a “significant corporate announcement” tomorrow, which sounds ominously like those breakup rumors are coming true — particularly since Dirk’s on record saying that the chipmaker plans to spin off manufacturing and fabrication into a new company.
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Well, I don’t know how I feel about this. It should help out AMD from a financial standpoint, but it won’t help from a quality control standpoint since they won’t be able to control the manufacturing process as closely. I guess we shall see what tomorrow brings.