AMD's only problem the past 5-7 years has been capacity - technologically they've been way ahead of the competition. More Fabs can only help, and I'm thrilled that their newest one will be in the US. More capacity will mean cheaper chips, enhanced ability to go after the corporate market, which will solidify their financial position and provide more $$$ for R&D, further benefitting us even more down the road.
Regardless of who gets the credit, this is a win all the way around.
The plant is in RINO Joe Bruno's NYS Senate District. Why didn't they build it in Endicott where we have all of these skilled IBM workers who have been thrown out of a job because IT MAKES NO SENSE to do business in this godforsaken political wreck of a state!
AMD CEO Hector de Jesus Ruiz, the one-worlder who claims the USA is losing its competitive advantage and decries the ecucation system in the US (an excuse he uses to hire cheap foreign technicians for plants in German and the USA), was under pressure to quit bellyaching about the USA and do something for the USA. Being a smart guy and using the Silican Valley schtick, he courts one half the political picture and tells Hillary he will build in Upstate New York. Now, given the taxation policies that exist in New York, why would anyone build a plant there, even if the subsidies were enormous? I wonder if AMD shareholders gived a damn?