It looks like the rumored spin-off of AMD’s manufacturing operations is just hours away now and reports are starting to ping across the wire of a “significant announcement” that AMD CEO Dirk Meyer will be making shortly.  In fact, we’ve been invited to a press web cast at 8AM EST that AMD will hold in the morning.  Historically, AMD has taken largely an in-house fabrication model for their wafer fabrication.  However, capitalizing this effort is a huge recurring and perpetual investment that