Abu Dhabi made headlines this week when it said it will . The plant will be the third such facility for , the chipmaking business that Abu Dhabi owns in a joint venture with AMD. But according to an interview published this week, we know one thing that will not be produced in the new foundry: Nvidia graphics chips. , sticking instead with long-term partner and the market leaders, TSMC. When asked if he was thinking about giving Abu Dhabi's emerging advanced tech sector a high five, he replied: "Globalfoundries is an AMD fab, right?...Globalfoundries is AMD's fab. Our strategy is TSMC." That isn't totally surprising, given that one of Nvidia's biggest competitors in the graphics chip market is AMD, who got into the market in a big way when they acquired ATI in 2006. While Globalfoundries is an independent company, AMD clearly wields a lot of management and technical control (it is also the second-largest shareholder and has 50 per cent of the board seats). With both Nvidia and AMD currently , I can see why one is unlikely to put their fate in the hands of the other.