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... (Read more)
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