Rumor: AMD May Divide Itself Into Two Companies
Advanced Micro Devices, the world’s second largest supplier of x86 central processing units, may divide itself into two separate companies in order to boost efficiencies of both. AMD has publicly indicated that the company needed restructuring and also admitted that it has been developing so-called “asset-smart” strategy in the last few quarters, but no actual details are clear.
According to a news-story by 247wallst.com web-site, there are rumours on the market claiming that Advanced Micro Devices may be split into two companies, one of which would concentrate on contract chip production and another would focus on development of microprocessors, graphics processing units, multimedia chips, core-logic sets and some other products. The rumour has been circulating for some time now, moreover, about half a decade ago AMD already admitted that it would make chips for its partners on a contract basis if it has enough manufacturing capacities.
