THE STEADY HAND GUIDING AMD’S “PRUDENTLY EXPANDING” DATACENTER BUSINESS
Among other topics was this one.
Forrest Norrod: I can’t talk about any such numbers, as you well know. But what I can say is this. The principal gate for us is not wafers. Particularly for these Epyc chips, it’s advanced substrates. And there’s just a long lead time to build up the factories and increase capacity for those substrates. We have made major investments and I think we are ramping that capacity at a very steep but prudent rate.
TPM: So TSMC is not a gating factor, either. . . .
Forrest Norrod: TSMC is not the problem for us on the server. So that’s not the issue. It’s other supply constraints. I think we’ve been open about that in the past.
TPM: Why are substrates your problem? That’s what I want to know. [Laughter]
Forrest Norrod: [Laughter] Well, in the end, it’s all my problem.
TPM: I suppose it is.
Forrest Norrod: And just to be clear, we are planning for doubling year-on-year over time.