Tag archive: fabrication operations

Over its entire corporate history, chipmaking giant Intel has designed and built chips for exactly one customer: itself. Now, however, Intel has made a move that may indicate a fundamental strategy shift for the company: Achronix Semiconductor has reached a deal with Intel to build Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) on Intel's 22nm process technology. The manufacturing arrangement will get underway in 2011, and Achronix is touting… Read More

In April, AMD underwent some restructuring and let around 1,600 employees go. Now the company has announced it will add to that total, with about 500 more jobs to be cut, around 3% of the company’s total workforce, Vnunet reports. The layoffs will be spread throughout the company, AMD said, and are a cost-cutting measure. It’s probably not too surprising, give the state of the economy, and the fact that AMD has never quite… Read More