Real Countries Have Fabs
Ed Sperling, Semiconductor Engineering
April 17th, 2014
Analysis: Rumblings about IBM selling off its semiconductor business have created some interesting possibilities, and lots of speculation.
Persistent rumblings about the sale of IBM’s semiconductor unit might have seemed absurd a couple decades ago—before IBM sold off its PC unit to Lenovo and lost the gaming chip business to AMD’s x86 chips—but no one is scoffing at the possibility these days.
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