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		stonemetal on Oct 30, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AMD Will Build 64-bit ARM based Opteron CPUs for S... Considering AMD is now a fabless chip design shop, not doing any design work doesn't make sense to me. What is their value add? They may as well have ordered a shipment of completed processors from Nvidia.

bryanlarsen on Oct 30, 2012 [–]

In this case, the value add is the processor interconnect fabric. In other cases, it will be their GPU.

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