Taiwan-based ASMedia has announced is has signed contracts with AMD for a partnership, but no details were disclosed about the relationship except that the projects are related to next-generation chipset technology, according to a company post on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE).
Digitimes previously reported that AMD has outsourced its chipset R&D to ASMedia to save costs and the cooperation is expected to greatly benefit ASMedia's revenue performance.
In May, Digitimes reported that AMD planned to establish the partnership with ASMedia by having the Taiwan-based IC design house share its SATA Express silicon intellectual property (SIP) or by having AMD acquire licenses from ASMedia.
However, the partnership has advanced further with an outsourcing of R&D for the whole chipset. Since most PC chipset functionality has already been integrated into the CPU, outsourcing chipset R&D to ASMedia should help AMD save costs and resources and allow the CPU maker to focus on developing APU and semi-customized products.
