Why the ranks of chip makers are thinning out
It takes about $13 billion in revenues over five years to justify a big investment in next-generation chip manufacturing technology. That explains why the ranks of chip makers are thinning out.
Walter Ng, a vice president at Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, one of the big contract chip manufacturers, said that the math just doesn’t add up for many companies to keep their own chip factories. Big companies such as Intel can afford to spend a couple of… Continue Reading