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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Elmer who wrote (95196)2/26/2000 9:10:00 PM
From: hmaly  Read Replies (2) of 1573841
 
Elmer Re...<<<I knew that given enough time you'd be right on something. A modern fab can be built in a year or so but for some unknown reason AMD's Fab30 is 3 years and counting.

I shall leave the reason as an exercise in speculation for the interested reader.>>>>>>>

Maybe a fab can be built here in the states in that time frame, but without knowing who did the building; it would be difficult to say what the expected time span in East. ger. would be as I doubt the infrastructure would be there to set a fast pace without spending large sums of money importing steel, cement,bring in experienced labor; heavy equipment etc. Also there was a recession in the semi business and it probably became apparent there would be no need to hurry; especially when MOT and INtel were mothballing plants. Nevertheless Dresden is built; I would think you would be more concerned with how far along is the plant in texas which Intel stopped building several yrs, ago and now abandoned because Intel was too cheap to pay the taxes. How long will it take to get that one running?
You say you do jobs at Intel plants occasionally, or don't you think Intel would let you in?
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