news: Intel to pay AMD $1.25 billion, settle disputes

krw wrote:
So IBM buys GF and makes a pile more money. ;-)

It's a moot point, GF is owned by ATIC of Abu Dhabi now. AMD owns a
portion too, but that's likely to go away now that the crosslicense says
that AMD no longer needs to own their own fabs anymore.

Besides, wasn't IBM going the other direction recently? They were
considering selling off their semiconductor division, rather than adding
on to it?

Yousuf Khan

On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:42:34 -0500, Yousuf Khan
wrote:

krw wrote:
So IBM buys GF and makes a pile more money. ;-)

It's a moot point, GF is owned by ATIC of Abu Dhabi now. AMD owns a
portion too, but that's likely to go away now that the crosslicense says
that AMD no longer needs to own their own fabs anymore.

Note the smiley. If there was money to be made, though...

Besides, wasn't IBM going the other direction recently? They were
considering selling off their semiconductor division, rather than adding
on to it?

There are always such rumors. The fact is that they need a fab as
long as they make hardware. The question is that of accounting.