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If only. Intel is the only remaining company with own fabs, all others have long exited that particular line of business. Designing chips makes money, manufact
by revelation 11y ago
If only. Intel is the only remaining company with own fabs, all others have long exited that particular line of business.
Designing chips makes money, manufacturing them in $10B and rising fabs that stop making profit after a few years not so much.
- MagnumOpus 11y agoThis is not a play against Intel, it is a play against TSMC which is the backbone of the Taiwanese economy. They very much haven't exited the foundry business and are very profitable ($7bn a year or so in net income), and are stealing away even the iDevice SoC business from Samsung these days...
- brobinson 11y agoYup, my first thought when I saw the headline was "this is a non-military attack on Taiwan due to the KMT (pro-Beijing party) getting annihilated in the polls two weeks ago".
- wmf 11y agoLet's not forget Samsung which is not that far behind and even more integrated than Intel.