Oh the gap that will widen between AMD and Intel after this happens. Goodbye tweaking your process and modifying the materials for your design!

Quote Originally Posted by Periander6 View Post
They have been trying to do this since last year, but the purported date keeps getting pushed back. The hold up is not their willingness to spin the fabs off, but their ability. The trick is finding someone stupid enough to put money into it. Who wants to invest in a SOI contract fab operation located in high cost Germany? In the current market environment idiots with money to throw away are a lot harder to find than they were last year. Right now I'm having a hard time seeing anyone other than the German government itself falling for this, but hey human stupidity should never be underestimated.
I think the machines in the fab are worth more than the land so... buy the fabs, strip them clean, send machines to China, sell buildings.