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To: slacker711 who wrote (51667)	3/4/2008 7:41:58 PM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543149

The exit polls are close, but it looks like Hillary probably has around 51-52% of the vote in Ohio. cnn.com Slacker

To: slacker711 who wrote (51667)	3/4/2008 9:25:46 PM
From: neolib	Respond to of 543149

IIRC, CDMA components are made by multiple vendors, just like all the other silicon in cell phones. Nobody has a lock on all 700M (or whatever it is) sold each year. If you really want to make that argument, you should be arguing for a single vendor as well. Why are you not making that argument? However, I did note before, that technology trade itself is likely more important. I was actually thinking of x86 CPU designs, which is a little like your cell phone, but more extreme. The cost of designing each new major x86 CPU is significant when amortized over the 100M's which will be sold worldwide. But having only one Intel does not mean that is the only way it could work. Take cell phones again, and look at ARM, which provides IP instead. Cell phone silicon is fab'ed from many different vendors. I'd suggest that any products where the development is extremely high, while the end product is quite cheap, would be candidates for trading IP, but not necessarily manufacturing. It also could apply as I previously noted to aircraft designs. You might note that the recent Airbus win for US tankers came with the promise of an assembly plant in the USA. That was a trade related issue.