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I was using the phone and gave it only one star rating. I wanted to give it five
Advanced Micro Devices said last month that it was in the middle of renegotiating its wafer-supply agreement with its former foundry, which was spun out as GlobalFoundries and is now part of a much larger chip manufacturing operation. The deal is now done – and so is AMD's stake in GlobalFoundries itself. Since spinning out …
AMD doesn't have a lot of Fab options so it's not like they can just change who produces their products. For the time being all 32 nm CPUs/APUs will still come from GloFo and 28 nm GPUs from TSMC. TSMC doesn't have the capacity to meet current demand until they build their new Fab this year and get it sorted out.