[ngomez]

Could you elaborate? AMD spun their fabrication arm off into GlobalFoundries a while back, and they seem to be doing okay. I thought that would be a good precedent for Intel divesting its fabs too, but I'd love to hear any counterpoints to that.

[totalZero]

AMD spun off GlobalFoundries to save itself, and suffered greatly for many years afterward. Let's not pretend it was some kind of masterstroke done by a company that was firing smoothly on all cylinders.

Do a Google search for the stock price. AMD announced the spinoff in October 2008.

[jjoonathan]

GlobalFoundries completely gave up on leading edge and went downmarket. It would be a shame to see Intel's fabs follow.