On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:20:58 -0500, Linonut wrote:
> * Tim Smith peremptorily fired off this memo:
>
>> In article <4ob695x4m3.ln2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>> Jerry McBride <jmcbride@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > I know, but $400 Million is a pretty big carrot.
>>> >
>>>
>>> Yeah... nothing like a 44 BILLION bid... huh?
>>
>> So you can't tell the difference between a bribe and a purchase?
>
> How was Sony's deal with Toshiba a bribe?
>
> Sounds like you're being as allusive as you claim Roy is.
"You can buy this chip fab for pennies on the dollar if you give up on
HD-DVD".
They bought the plant for $835 Million dollars, which is cheap for a chip
fab (usually they run around 2-3 billion).
For example:
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/06/26/amd_new_york_fab/
"AMD is to build a 300mm-wafer fab in Saratoga County, New York. The $3.5bn
plant will be used to punch out 32nm processors, comments made by senior
staffers suggest."
http://www.news.com/AMD-breaks-ground-on-new-chip-plant/2100-1006_3-5109686.html
"The company said it expects to spend $2.4 billion over the next four years
to construct and later upgrade the plant, dubbed AMD Fab 36."
http://www.siteselection.com/ssinsider/incentive/ti0011.htm
"The chips made at IBM's new US$2.5 billion fab in East Fishkill, N.Y.,
will be very, very small - more than 1,000 times thinner than a human
hair."
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