Charlie at Semi Accurate has been hinting at this for weeks. And now apparently fudzilla caught wind of it. I know a lot of you will question the sources, but something HAS been going on at AMD for awhile and we learned through the CEO it wasn't going to be a buyout or sale..So this lines up..
http://www.fudzilla.com/news/processors/38694-private-equity-to-get-20-percent-of-amd
Our well informed industry sources have told us that AMD is about to sell 20 percent of its stake to a private equity outfit called Silver Lake.
Fudzilla got this from multiple, independent industry sources that want to remain anonymous. Silver Lake was the outfit which was behind Michael Dell's take over of his company and has piles of cash.
The company advertises itself as a global leader in technology investing and that have invested money in brands like Alibaba, Avago, GoDaddy,Motorola Solutions, Opera Solutions and many others has prepared to bite the significant part of AMD.
This could be AMD's big break as it will get the money that it desperately needs. AMD has been sinking under financial problems as its CPU roadmap is not that great and it is hard for AMD to compete with Nvidia in the mainstream and entry level graphics market.
http://www.fudzilla.com/news/processors/38694-private-equity-to-get-20-percent-of-amd