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AMD CEO Dirk Meyer (DirkMeyer) said the company would focus on Semiconductor Design, improve profits and compete with Intel top. You might say that Dirk Meyer silk cushion covers

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shoulder the burden of the former CEO of no less heavy, but he is still to be played. When AMD CEO Dirk Meyer as the time, the company has just completed a complex business spin-off, spun off its manufacturing operations into a new company called Globalfoundries company. The transaction is AMD in recent years one of the important changes occurred. It had in 2006 for USD 5.4 billion acquisition of Canadian graphics Chip Manufacturers ATITechnologies, results show that the timing of the acquisition transaction very right. AMD ATI's assets will eventually be downsized by about half.



While AMD's chip has been very competitive and occasionally more than Intel's products, but it has been trapped in a chip production plant construction and operating costs that can not extricate themselves. AMD's revenue last year was 5.8 billion U.S. dollars, but a loss of 19.5 billion dollars.



AMD and AbuDhabi AdvancedTechnologyInvestment owned company in the newly formed Globalfoundries hold half the shares, Globalfoundries AMD's chips not only to undertake the contract, issued by other manufacturers also received orders for chip production. It is reported that, Globalfoundries several chip makers already have customers, including TSMC, UMC Electronic Singapore, Chartered Semiconductor and IBM.



Although AMD no longer the capital for the production of business expenses and trouble, but Mel is still faced with a daunting task, that is, with the technology companies Intel, the industry's most powerful competition. "Business Weekly" ArikHesseldahl recently interviewed on Dirk Meyer, the latter on the processor market and the status of the computer industry as well as AMD's new structure commented. The interview is as follows:



Business Week: AMD's new structure reflected the biggest change is the company will not fully control its production plant, at least on the surface is so. From the operational point of view, this new operational structure with you in the most recent years has done something different?



Mel: Roughly, there will be a little different, but actually not much different. We must provide good Globalfoundries expected. In the beginning, we are its only customers; and for a long period of time is its largest customer, so they must go all out to provide us with the necessary products.



Business Week: Globalfoundries Are there other customers?



Mel: they are in consultation with many customers Cooperation Matters. As the R & D and capital expenditure growth rate faster than the industry growth, so you will find some companies can no longer meet the needs of the production scale. So the whole industry has the scale of production will be concentrated in the hands of manufacturers, most manufacturers into assembly plants. Looking at the assembly plant now, only Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, a manufacturer with advanced technology and good performance. Other assemblers obviously do not have the above two conditions simultaneously. We found, first, those who want to look for an assembly partner companies would like to find a partner outside of TSMC; second, the industry will turn more and more manufacturers of non-plant operations. For these reasons, we believe that the establishment of an assembly manufacturer, there is an opportunity.



Business Week: Now that AMD has to give up manufacturing operations, then on the AMD is the most important thing is what?



Mel: We in the computer and server processors, graphics processors and video processors, has a lot of intellectual property rights.