What with all this credit crunch business you'd think merging was all the rage these days but chip-maker AMD's going in the opposite direction and splitting, amoeba-like, into two companies. After a fierce custody battle, one half will keep the AMD name and focus on design and development, the other, newly spawned off-shoot will be known as The Foundry Company and will be be comprised of the manufacturing side of things. The good news for us is that the deal comes with some heavyweight financial backing from two Abu Dhabi investment firms, which means more money for R&D and hopefully some serious graphics and processor hardware to raise the competition with Intel and Nvidea. [ AMD ] ...
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What with all this credit crunch business you'd think merging was all the rage these days but chip-maker AMD's going in the opposite direction and splitting, amoeba-like, into two companies. After a fierce custody battle, one half will keep the AMD name and focus on design and development, the other, newly spawned off-shoot will be known as The Foundry Company and will be be comprised of the manufacturing side of things. The good news for us is that the deal comes with some heavyweight financial backing from two Abu Dhabi investment firms, which means more money for R&D and hopefully some serious graphics and processor hardware to raise the competition with Intel and Nvidea. [ AMD ] ...