

Samsung hikes up prices on Apple






Source: Market Watch

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RE: Ouch!!
By XZerg on 11/12/2012 2:44:07 PM , Rating: 1
3-4 years at minimum to get the fab going and producing at a decent yield. by then the entire industry would have moved on to the next generation manufacturing: 450mm wafers + FinFET. IIRC optical communication is right around the corner of that - 2016-2018...

There is a limit to vertical integration and going beyond a certain point can fracture the entire business model for various reasons such as over-commitment in one section or under-performance in another...

Apple, if they do launch a fab, it may be for many years specifically used for smaller basic i/o chips rather than doing processors. If and when they master it and catch up to the rest of the fab industry on technology nodes, may jump on to making cpus. So maybe a decade or so away.

