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Posted by Tekime on 2003-07-19 10:19:03
One day the founder and head of Advanced Micro Devices, Jerry Sanders, said: “Only real men have fabs”. Well, in this case the Big Three of the Asian chip manufacturers including TSMC, UMC and Chartered, really deserve being called “real men”, as they almost own the monopoly for production of chips of any possible complexity.
Of course, the biggest part of these chips are the chips for electronic appliances of all kinds, which production does not require top-end technologies. And the users of this equipment simply do not know anything about the manufacturers of the chips used in it, the same as any average car owner doesn’t actually know, which small company assembled the carburetor for his car. Read more...
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