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"Real men have fabs." – Jerry Sanders. TSMC - "You don't need to manage your own fabs. Let us do it for you and just focus on what you do best." Intel kept it

"Real men have fabs." – Jerry Sanders. TSMC - "You don't need to manage your own fabs. Let us do it for you and just focus on what you do best." Intel kept its fabs, which certainly gave it many advantages, until Intel's tick-tock model failed. Now, America is crying about its own failures and wants to punish others for their success. It makes America look bitter.

tmaly 2y ago
Intel cannot afford to create a new fab on the newest technology.
- fransje26 2y ago
  > Intel cannot afford to create a new fab on the newest technology. Where did the billions they racked-up in the past decades go to..?
  - osnium123 2y ago
    They wasted it on stock buybacks and acquiring start ups that they went onto kill.
  - tmaly 2y ago
    the cost to build a state of the art fab is on the order of 30 to 50 billion.
- BeetleB 2y ago
  Have you looked at their balance sheet?