Ruiz says Indian R&D staff will play a "lead role" on Shanghai, AMD's first 45nm quad-core processor scheduled to appear in the first half of next year, as well.

Does this mean they expect to have working silicon on 45nm in the 1H of '08? I didn't know that's what the roadmap had slated... It would be a nice surprise though!

Judging the lack of quality from many recent products, perhaps the west would have served themselves better by dumping the 100s of billion of bucks into Native American ecosystem development.

AMD's team at its first R&D center in Bangalore worked on design testing and chip optimizations for the first quad-core Opteron processor, code-named Barcelona.

...so THAT'S what happened to Barcelona's performance....

*ducks*

As long as they don't open a tech support center there.

Of course Indian engineers are important, AMD right now can't afford people who demand higher pay and benefits and all that other stuff. (Yes, blatant generalization that I have no data to support, nor any desire to.)

They maybe shouldn't have talked financials at the same time as opening up an office in India, what with the way people in the US think about Indians working for American companies. Although maybe the audience intended was executives and Wall Street, who think it's absolutely a great thing.

That last bit seems like just filler material for his speech. Well DUH consumers benefit from competition, and DUH you have to make prices low and still be profitable. Or maybe that's not such a DUH for them... Maybe they just realized they'd been reading the business manual upside down.

I don't know what I've been smoking today, but when I saw the word 'Indian' in the title, I thought 'American Indian' and asked myself why in the world would AMD open an American Indian R&D center?? I finally realized it's in India when Bangalore was mentioned. =P *Goes to look for some caffeine*