AMD pulls out of alliance with Mot ?
Remember the alliance between Motorola and AMD ?
Motorola has poor production units and AMD has great fabs. Motorola gave SOI to AMD in order to be able to produce G4 Apollo (.13µ MPC 7460) side by side with AMD Athlon in AMD fabs.
now, seen this on Yahoo Message Boards (01/31/02): <a href="http://messages.yahoo.com/bbs?.mm=FN&action=m&board=4686785&tid=mot&sid=4686 785&mid=87853" target="_blank">AMD pulls out alliance.</a>
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word is that AMD pulled out of the alliance with motorola. the amd engineers had a big meeting yesterday. Also, we are hearing that Hip9 might be in jeopardy because of the pullout and that APRDL might be history within the year as they send all the research overseas.
Has anyone heard anything about a possible shutdown of Mos-11 or Mos-12?
We are hearing numerous layoff rumors. This Friday? Two weeks from now? Anyway, its going to happen. What else is new?
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Note that it just comes from a message board... It is basically a rumor for a rumor site.
Motorola has poor production units and AMD has great fabs. Motorola gave SOI to AMD in order to be able to produce G4 Apollo (.13µ MPC 7460) side by side with AMD Athlon in AMD fabs.
now, seen this on Yahoo Message Boards (01/31/02): <a href="http://messages.yahoo.com/bbs?.mm=FN&action=m&board=4686785&tid=mot&sid=4686 785&mid=87853" target="_blank">AMD pulls out alliance.</a>
[quote]
word is that AMD pulled out of the alliance with motorola. the amd engineers had a big meeting yesterday. Also, we are hearing that Hip9 might be in jeopardy because of the pullout and that APRDL might be history within the year as they send all the research overseas.
Has anyone heard anything about a possible shutdown of Mos-11 or Mos-12?
We are hearing numerous layoff rumors. This Friday? Two weeks from now? Anyway, its going to happen. What else is new?
<hr></blockquote>
Note that it just comes from a message board... It is basically a rumor for a rumor site.
Comments
the amd engineers had a big meeting yesterday.
Engineers don't make these kind of decisions. Useless Executive VP's and directors do.
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I've never seen any evidence of manufacturing being part of the AMD-Mot alliance, only process technology, so The fate of the 7460 doesn't hang in the balance.
AMD is growing.
Geez, I wish AMD had the rights to Altivec.
Am I missing something?
Bull shit. Why?
the amd engineers had a big meeting yesterday.
Engineers don't make these kind of decisions. Useless Executive VP's and directors do.
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Outsider this is seriously funny sh!t, and so true.
The one post that was interesting referred to Apple's need for speed, and how that just isn't in Motorola's best interests. I'm curious to see how this all plays out.
F'ing hell Apple, just buy the SoB's PowerPC division and become a fab-less chip maker!
Barto
<strong>SPS is the Motorola semiconductor division. Motorola has threatened to abandon the entire unit if they don't start showing a profit soon. If this happens I could see Apple acquiring key pieces in order to sustain their PPC development requirements, and they would probably then seek partners to aid in process technology and manufacturing (neither of which Apple is likely interested in).</strong><hr></blockquote>
Yeah, I saw that in a bloomberg article.
I reckon that Apple would buy the PPC division and would leave everything else to IBM.
Barto