Other customers
"We round out our proposition by unlocking the value of the world's most efficient semiconductor manufacturing capabilities in Dresden for the market. Through the patient capital of our partners, ATIC, we have the resources needed to aggressively expand our capacity in Dresden and begin construction of a new facility in Upstate, NY. There are very few companies with the capital resources and know-how to deliver ongoing leading-edge R&D while aggressively scaling capacity simultaneously."
One springs to mind.
Apart from freeing up some cash for AMD, the other most change brought about by this split is that TFC is now, in principle, at liberty to manufacture for companies other than AMD. We ask Grose who these other customers might be. "First and foremost our priority will be delivering best-in-class support for our largest customer, AMD," he says.
"Once we have capacity ramped at our second 300mm facility in Dresden (expected in the second half of 2009) we'll be ready to bring new customers online.
"We have a list of customers we're targeting but we're not prepared to disclose specific names"
"The engagement has already started and will continue between now and then. We have a list of customers we're targeting but we're not prepared to disclose specific names. If you want to get a better sense of prospective customers I would recommend you check out the IBM alliance members as well as the GSA for the world's top fabless semiconductor providers. Our customer engagement process started on announcement day."
The Foundry Company's head of communications, Jon Carvill, used to head manage AMD's PR in Europe. Here he is at AMD's CTO summit in Iceland this year