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Re:Balancing AMD’s Future on the Edge of a Silicon Wafer by simion314 on Friday July 31, 2020 @10:24AM (#24008829)
The AMD chiplet design is also a big advantage, they can mix 10nm and 14nm parts, they get much better yields then monolithic designs also read that the instructions per clock is also very good, the only missing things is frequency.
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Re:Balancing AMD’s Future on the Edge of a Silicon Wafer by dralley on Friday July 31, 2020 @11:01AM (#24009277)
AMD is still locked into an agreement to buy wafers from GloFo that dates back to their spinoff, and the chiplet design allows them to use GloFo 14nm for the I/O die which helps to satisfy some of their wafer purchasing requirements.

It's a massive win all around.

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Re:Balancing AMD’s Future on the Edge of a Silicon Wafer by jaas on Friday July 31, 2020 @12:07PM (#24010100)
Just to be a little more clear - I believe the original lock-in agreement with GF has expired, but they negotiated a new one. So they have an agreement about chip purchasing, but they aren't still in the agreement from the spinoff.
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