Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Formerly About Applied Materials -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Gottfried who wrote (9314)	10/23/1997 11:00:00 PM
From: Teri Skogerboe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

GM & All, A long-term story, excerpt below. techweb.cmp.com By 2015, fabs will cost $10 billion By Jack Robertson SAN DIEGO -- State-of-the-art fabs, now costing $2 billion each, will balloon to $10 billion investments by the year 2015--becoming more expensive than a nuclear power station, predicted Mark Melliar-Smith, president of Sematech. Speaking before the Dataquest Semiconductor Industry conference here today, Melliar-Smith said that even with efforts in reducing equipment costs he "don't see much that will change the linear trend line of factory capital costs" for the next 17 years. That extrapolates to a fab cost of $10 billion in the second decade of the next century, "making a semiconductor factory the single most expensive facility in the industrial world," said the president of the Austin, Tex.-based manufacturing research consortium.