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In return, AMD gets a licensing fee of $293 million plus royalties of which it has already had $52 million.
Intel will not be happy with the deal and may challenge it under its technology exchange deal with AMD which says x86 technology cannot be sub-licensed.
AMD points out that the terms of its jv with Tianjin Haiguang mean that the constraint on sub-licensing has not been breached.
The US government could also intervene on the grounds that transferring x86 technology affects national security.
Intel already has a China deal to develop x86 server processors with Tsinghua University and Montage Technology Global Holdings.
Qualcomm has a deal with a China company to develop ARM-based server chips..
AMD is solely responsible for selling technology to China for profit without regards to national security, and now the whole world pays the price due to a Communist China rising to power and disrupting world order. (not to mention spreading viruses every other decade to mankind)
China paid for the right to scrutinize and remove the AMD design for NSA backdoor on every Intel server chip. China also can add fast unbreakable encryption not available on American server chips. The deal is a win win for every server company in the world.
Not sure for the win-win… it is maybe a bit naive to think that Chinese gvt will not implement his own backdoor…
I will disagree with you on one point, Raphael. It is not “a bit naive”, it is “extremely naive” to think that Chinese gvt will not implement his own backdoor.