AMD spun their manufacturing off as Global Foundries, so yes.
And yeah, I’m not sure this distinction the poster is making between arm as like a software company and NVIDIA like a hardware company makes much sense.
Arm makes IP (in the chip design sense). NVIDIA makes IP and combines it with IP from Arm and others, and produces some product designs based on the chip, which NVIDIA tests and writes software for. But ODMs make the products and fabs make the chips. I really don’t think calling some of this like software and some like hardware is very explanatory, at least partially because NVIDIA writes a lot of software, and because I think the person reading that description might come away with the impression that arm just produces the architecture, and not actual core designs (which NVIDIA, Denver aside, uses).
They also stopped using global foundries and now use TSMC. Global foundries, like pretty much everyone other than TSMC, fell behind in process shrinks. Their primary business is fabricating secondary chips.
Global Foundries is still used as the northbridge chiplet inside modern AMD processors; only the CPU core chiplets are from TSMC.
Global Foundries has sizable operations in Dresden, Germany. Interestingly, this was a major semiconductor supplier of the Eastern Block, prior the fall of the iron curtain. AMD placed their primary foundry in Dresden, likely for the infrastructure and technical knowledge.
Global Foundries has decided that more money can be made at 14nm and above, than what is required for smaller process nodes.
And yeah, I’m not sure this distinction the poster is making between arm as like a software company and NVIDIA like a hardware company makes much sense.
Arm makes IP (in the chip design sense). NVIDIA makes IP and combines it with IP from Arm and others, and produces some product designs based on the chip, which NVIDIA tests and writes software for. But ODMs make the products and fabs make the chips. I really don’t think calling some of this like software and some like hardware is very explanatory, at least partially because NVIDIA writes a lot of software, and because I think the person reading that description might come away with the impression that arm just produces the architecture, and not actual core designs (which NVIDIA, Denver aside, uses).