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To: Sarmad Y. Hermiz who wrote (201808)	6/12/2006 11:51:40 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

"They either don't want to use that business model, or they don't have $2B, and are not sure of their demand to sell the story to underwriters and bond buyers, or they don't have the technical expertise, or they don't have the time to spend 2 years" None of these make sense If they could cut their costs. Expertise can be bought, happens all the time. There are lots of people cut loose when fabs are idled, locating where this is about to happen is a great way to pick up expertise. Most of those people aren't going to want to relocate, so they can be snapped up. VIA, in particular, has access to a lot of this, they had an opportunity to buy a functional fab when they bought most of SiS. They passed because the costs of owning a fab exceeded the value of having one.