Quote Originally Posted by Rammsteiner View Post
You know that when you talk out of your ass you dont need to use your brain right?

Also it's not good if you hate your self.
The genius decided to get involved. * applauses*

Germany is globally indeed not the cheapest option to produce. But Germany is by far not expensive. Hell, even NL is already going to be more expensive.

Im not sure but Norwegian/Sweden/Denmark would be more expensive as well.
Why not give the Moon or the North Pole as a counterexample ?
Did it ever crossed your brain that you need an infrastructure and qualified work force for such a large project ? Germany is an engineering power house , that's why it was chosen.

Given dumb examples of more expensive countries which are not on the semiconductor train is an example of not using ones brain.
Also, maybe it was cheaper to produce in Germany and ship from there around Europa instead of producing in China and ship it all back.It's bad to sell in dollars, but producing in dollars might be just as expensive at the very same time.


That's some seriously twisted logic in there.What are the labour costs in Germany vs. China ? Or the utilities cost ?
Did it occur to you that Asia Pacific is the main growth region of the world ?

Why do you think Intel builds a FAB in China ?

I think the new owner would be more than happy to produce AMD chips since they've a guaranteed customer. Also, I dont think AMD sells their fab to the first person they meet. I think their will be a contract at least binding the fab to produce x years y quantity.
No sh*t Sherlock ; who would have thought of that ?

The new owner will charge AMD more ( to recoup its investment and fuel future R&D ) and will fab other products in order to get a lower fixed cost per product.
Depends on the capacity you got to produce for said product. If they've multiple processes around they've a widespread income. Just like farmers basicly.


Probably a new process is worth as much as a few tons of seed.

A new process my dear Watson costs $1-1.5B to develop.To get an ROI on that , you need revenues 4-6x larger.Nobody would develop a specialized new process that will bring a few hundred million $ ; it's not worth it.For such a small foundry it's obvious they will stick to a generic one.

Heck , even TSMC produces Nvidia parts in a generic 65nm process.

We were that far Sherlock. Now the question of more importance was, did AMD produce max capacity 24/7 or not?
Not even close ; this was mentioned clearly in the last earnings conference call.