AMD renames The Foundry Company

Robert Hallock 4 Mar, 2009 at 12:19pm ET Article published in Tech

AMD recently spun the production arm of its firm into an entirely new company known as The Foundry Co. Now that AMD shareholders have approved the process, The Foundry Company is officially known as Globalfoundries.

Globalfoundries will field contracted jobs in addition to the fabrication obligations to AMD. It has also retitled all of AMD’s old foundries with a vastly more reasonable scheme:

Fab 1/Module 1: Dresden, Germany. 45nm SOI production.
Fab 1/Module 2: Dresden, German. 32nm production.
Fab 2: Albany, NY. Presumably 32nm production.

And that’s that.

Comments

4 Mar 2009 ~ 1:14pm mas0n :sad2: I liked the simplicity of "The Foundry" but I 'm not surprised it wasn't permanent.
4 Mar 2009 ~ 1:17pm Linc "The Foundry Company" was badass. Globalfoundries sounds like a bunch of suits in a small meeting room trying to sound important.
4 Mar 2009 ~ 1:29pm Thrax

Lincoln wrote:

Globalfoundries sounds like a bunch of suits in a small meeting room trying to sound important.

Just so happens...
5 Mar 2009 ~ 11:17am DrLiam They downgraded from a 3 word name to a 1 word name. :P
5 Mar 2009 ~ 2:16pm Leonardo "The Foundry Company" was a great name. Globalfoundries isn't bad either.
5 Mar 2009 ~ 3:56pm Ryder

DrLiam wrote:

They downgraded from a 3 word name to a 1 word name. :P

Triple Core to Single Core
5 Mar 2009 ~ 4:27pm Leonardo We'll no AMD's troubles are only worse if the name is changed again to just "Foundry."
5 Mar 2009 ~ 4:55pm Komete Lame logo. when will AMD, or what was formally known as AMD, get a decent marketing team?