On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 8:32 AM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 2 Sep 2014 08:56:23 -0400, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote: > >>[email protected] (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) writes: <deleted> >>latest story is that IBM was willing to pay $1B for somebody to take >>chip fab business ... but prospects wanted $2B. >> > 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? > > -- gil
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