>>3347115That would indeed be the implication, wouldn't it?
But no. That's not what I'm saying.
AMD has particularly strong roots to Globalfoundries, as the foundry's manufacturing was designed and fine-tuned specifically for AMD's CPU products. Their entire existence depends on orders from AMD itself.
There are multiple aspects to consider under this subject. Companies like AMD, Nvidia, Qualcomm are large enough to employ their own design teams.
And they would need to be, because CPU logic is a completely different game than CMOS image sensors.
AMD is to Globalfoundries, like Sony Imaging is to Sony Semiconductors.
Something more relevant to the current discussion of espionage:
Pic related is from the past, but still relevant to this day, the Nvidia CEO specifically said: "No, _that_ belongs to AMD" when he rejected Globalfoundries.
You see, CPU design is utterly different from image sensor design. And they simply couldn't risk having a Globalfoundry engineer chatting randomly to an AMD engineer under a cup of coffee.
In the camera business you can run such risks because the CMOS chip isn't all that complex.
But in the CPU/GPU business that's a bad deal.
