Smart Men Have Foundries
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Written by Chris Tom   
Friday, 27 February 2009 08:32
eWeek discusses foundries with AMD CEO Dirk Meyer.

When Jerry Sander helped found Advanced Micro Devices, he used the now well-known maxim—“real men have fabs”—to describe how AMD planned to survive in the competitive global semiconductor market. Now, as AMD prepares to shed it fabs, current CEO Dirk Meyer wants to use a new slogan. “Jerry was a real smart guy but the industry has changed a lot since that time, so I think, ‘Smart men have foundries,’ is my new quote,” said Meyers during a Feb. 26 interview with eWEEK.