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Chipguy

ATI's product development is highly tightly tuned to TSMC processes.

Heard AtI gives UMC a shot recently, though. Toolsets in foundries are not as different from each others it would look impossible from a manufacturing stance within a node.

On a broader look at it, what I thought would be the most compelling argument for a merger of AMD/AtI long before it happened was to allow adopting the model Intel uses and make chipsets and grafics in AMDs fabs after CPUs. But history rolled over this, as CS and grafics trend towards the leading-edge node nowadays.

As flash does as well, changes of Intels model are imminent down the road. I have not heard anything from Intel in this respect, did you?

K.