At the May event, the head of AMD Lisa Su already explained that the company is not going to live primarily due to the sale of its technologies and patents, and is ready to actively use its know-how in its products, rather than share it with competitors. Each potential licensee will be comprehensively evaluated, and therefore it is not yet necessary to talk about a large number of clients in this direction. AMD is easier to part with those developments that are not particularly needed in the current and future activities.
AMD technical director Mark Papermaster (Mark Papermaster) added this week that licensing technology for the company can only be an auxiliary source of revenue. In China, as you can remember, a joint venture has been created that develops processors for server applications using AMD's know-how, but these processors will be distributed exclusively in China. The company will receive royalties from each shipped processor when they begin to be released serially. The selection of other candidates for licensees AMD will be very carefully handled, as explained by Peipermaster.
By the way, when asked about Tesla's intentions to initially consider AMD as a developer of components for its systems of autopilot, Mark Peipermaster calmly replied that the car segment has a huge capacity and development potential, so many AMD solutions could find effective application in it. For example, the same computational accelerators are needed for training autopilot systems, not to mention productive CPUs.