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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JohnG who wrote (54182)	8/4/2006 2:05:30 PM
From: engineer	Respond to of 197246

everyone is working on this. It is the main research topic inside universites these days. Every fab is trying to figure out how to fix up the leakage current and physics problems. If you go to the technical confernces, everyone is reporting papers on these problems and fixes to them. The only reason that a INTC or TI can go ahead a few months earlier than otehrs is that they let people run total risk silicon in the fabs as an experiment and if it works, they then sell it as a product. Most of those are tehn tweaked later (quitely in the background) when the REAL process is ready. An open source FAB house like TSMC has to be a few more months behind in running silicon as they do not have as much inside information to the device operations and have to wait until the line is more stable. The INTC and TI lines are "in production" by smoke and mirrors and PR'ism. I know for a fact that the first 10 designs in 90 nm thru the INTC line flat failed and were scrapped. Would you want Qualcomm to waste 10x$1.5M on marketing specsmanship? I wouldn't. If the TI's and INTCs of the world are ready to pony up $200M to try physics experiements and then claim when one of them worked tha this was a giant breakthru, so be it.