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 Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (503925)	8/12/2009 11:50:30 AM
From: Alighieri	Respond to of 1577025

How easy is it for INTC to convert fabs to produce a smaller chip? I haven't follow the industry very closely for a few years but it used to take them up to two years to plan ahead for the conversion. Why would you think the car industry would be any different? Ask him how long it took to come up with the P4? Al

To: tejek who wrote (503925)	8/12/2009 12:43:20 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577025

Ted, > How easy is it for INTC to convert fabs to produce a smaller chip? We're not talking about timelines. We're talking about direction. Do you really think GM has changed direction? The GM Volt is great technology, but that has always been in the works even before the bailout. That's not a sign that GM has changed direction. The only "change" I see now is government saying that GM ought to make more efficient cars. Government is also going to do everything to make that a self-fulfilling prophesy with this cap-n-trade nonsense. This is not a self-sustaining business model. This is a model that only sustains one thing: big government. And we're going to pay for it with either higher taxes or higher inflation (or both). Tenchusatsu