AMD Changes Foundry Strategy to Compete with Intel

Previously in this series, we saw that PC vendors are increasingly adopting Advanced Micro Devices’ (AMD) second-generation Ryzen CPUs (central processing units) due to the supply shortage of Intel’s (INTC) CPUs, which could bring AMD gains. However, these gains could be short lived if Intel launches its rumored ninth-generation CPUs in Q4 2018 and its 10nm (nanometer) Cannon Lake CPUs in Q4 2019, as AMD’s CPUs still lag behind Intel’s in terms of performance. As AMD is aware of its competition, it is changing its foundry strategy significantly.