| Bofferbrauer2 said: I know that fully well. That being said, AMD was forced to pay up for a specific amount of wafers from Globalfoundries upfront in 2015, whether they'd actually need them or not (and even pay extra if they produce chips at other foundries). Thus, AMD sold their chips to Sony and Microsoft at the lowest possible price for them to ensure they don't need to pay for unused wafers. However, since GF doesn't have a 7nm process, the deal got eased a lot and the Ryzen/Epyc chips already fulfill it, thus having no need to go as low with the price as they did this gen. |
Thats not how that happened....
AMD had contracted a certain number of chips with GF. This is normal with thee chip contracts for everyone. The issue was that TSCM moved onto a newer process earlier than GF and AMD and its customers needed to be on tat new process. So even though AMD and their customers had shifted onto a new process AMD was now in breach of contract with GF since they now needed far fewer wafers from them.
They never were now selling their chips to sony and MS for some bargain bin price. I really don't know where you heard that.
