[butThenAgain]

Perhaps they are fabless for the moment, but that might not last forever.

See here:

http://m.bizjournals.com/albany/stories/2006/06/19/daily53.h...

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/-1-Billion-In-NYS-Funding-For-...

http://www.saratoga.com/news/amd-chip-plant.cfm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther_Forest_Technology_Campus

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/other/display/20130904235756_Gl...

[cswelin]

Those are all old sources, if I recall correctly AMD spun off there fabs to GlobalFoundries then recently divest their stake.