0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu (Paul Gilmartin) writes: > But suppose IBM chooses a prospect and pays the $2B. The contract > would surely include a committment to supply IBM with N chips each at > a price of > > $2B/N + incremental manufacturing cost. > > But who pays for the R&D and tooling for the next generation technology? > Could > that be specified, firmly, in the contract?
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#85 Demonstrating Moore's law story was that prospects were interested in the people and expertise ... didn't really want the FABs ... but would take them for $2B. IBM would have to do their own proprietary chip designs ... but use whatever technology is in the market (already there are comments that there is some design commonality between mainframe chips and other chips). presumably, IBM would want latest 14nm technology (not the older 32nm technology) and newer; see intel's roadmap (intel is spending $5b to build a 14nm fab; which pretty much obsoletes older fabs) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Tick-Tock current list of fabs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabrication_plants -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
