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by MangoCoffee 494 days ago
"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.

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Intel cannot afford to create a new fab on the newest technology.
> 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..?

They wasted it on stock buybacks and acquiring start ups that they went onto kill.
the cost to build a state of the art fab is on the order of 30 to 50 billion.
Have you looked at their balance sheet?