GF AMD and AMD jointly promote 7nm process but there are probably other foundry partner

2009 AMD to own wafer manufacturing business spun off Middle East oil sold Tyrant fund established GlobalFoundries Inc. (GF), although AMD has holdings of shares of GF company, and over the years GF stumbling process, but they have been AMD OEM partners are important, but fortunately finally stabilize the 14nm node down for AMD OEM Polaris and Zen processor. Recently AMD and GF has signed a $ 335 million partnership agreement, AMD before the end of 2020 will continue to buy GF wafer, the two sides will promote cooperation 7nm process development.

Signed between AMD and GF is the WSA (Wafer Supply Agreement) wafer supply agreement period up to five years, the last time the agreement was signed in 2011, and it was not the GF 32nm process immaturity, AMD is no longer used to purchase wafers fixed price and switch to cut out the cores can be used to pay. The agreement signed calculated from January 1, 2016, as of December 31, 2020, the year in which the wafer price is fixed, the next four years to determine the price of the frame.

Under the agreement, the two sides in addition to up to five years of wafer supplier cooperation, the will to work together to promote 7nm process development –GlobalFoundries has confirmed that canceled the 10nm process, AMD did not mention 10nm chip planned, both from 14nm directly kill the future 7nm process.

But it can not be completely ruled out AMD, there are other plans, because in the agreement AMD also retains the possibility of using other fab manufacture of certain products. Although this is only the possibility of agreement on the increase but this provision means that AMD may choose other foundries – on 14nm process is, GlobalFoundries now capacity can not fully meet the needs of AMD.

Agreement the two sides signed a total value of up to $ 335 million, of which $ 100 million in cash installments, starting from 2016 Q4 2017 Q3 quarter until quarter.

Another $ 235 million is for West Coast Hitech LP’s authorized shares, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Mubadala Development Company, Mubadala is GlobalFoundries and major shareholders of the parent company ATIC, AMD give the company a total of 75 million, $ 5.98 per share of stock authorized, which do February 29, 2020 exercise.

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Dell’s $ 67 billion acquisition of storage giant EMC is nearing completion

Dell expects to complete the acquisition of EMC in the coming weeks. After the transaction the combined company will become the fast-growing cloud computing market in a popular favor suppliers.

Chief Executive Michael Dell – Dell (Michael Dell) on Monday at the annual meeting EMC’s VMware appearances, he bet that companies will use Dell equipment to build a private cloud, so that employees can access the software program on a private cloud via the Internet .

- Michael Dell at VMworld Monday, said Dell is a major priority is to make private clouds easy to use.

By revenue, the combined company will become the leading cloud computing hardware market, at present the market size of $ 29 billion to low-margin hardware based. According to International Data Corporation data, 2015 Dell and EMC in this highly fragmented market holds 18.2% share of the Chinese Communist Party.

In addition to hardware, the combined company’s need to integrate multiple software products Dell and EMC departments, including VMware, Pivotal and Virtustream. Pivotal to assist software developers to develop cloud applications and services, and its customers include Ford Motor Division and General Electric Company. By Virtustream, Dell Services will help SAP SE and other suppliers of traditional enterprise software program running on the new cloud computing infrastructure.

Dell announced in October last year to $ 67 billion acquisition of storage giant EMC, the combined company is called SCIENCE Dell (Dell Technologies), PC business still be referred to Dell.

It is reported that Dell’s acquisition of EMC is the IT industry’s largest ever deal together, the two companies will be integrated computing giants. PC maker Dell & server and data storage systems and software maker EMC joined forces to build the largest IT equipment and software vendors. Enterprise computing giant is facing not only public cloud computing services, is also facing competitive pressures smartphones and tablets PC alternative technologies.

Earlier media reports said Dell EMC acquisition transaction has been approved by Chinese regulators, and cleared the last hurdle.

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