Doug Grose, the CEO of Globalfoundries and a former manufacturing exec with AMD, acknowledges the risks of this massive investment in a market known for wild up and down cycles.

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Unlike Intel, AMD outsources the production of its processors to TSMC and GlobalFoundries.

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As interesting is that AMD accomplished this with the same 32nm SOI process technology as Llano at Globalfoundries.

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