[Lorenb420]

RELIABLE SOURCES TELL the INQUIRER that by the year 2005 there's likely to be an Intel fabrication plant located in mainland China.

To build a "fab", it costs something like $3 Billion (see forbes for reference). Not exactly a small investment.

[M_TEN_FORTYFIVE]

(Rant mode ON!)

The stupidity of this is appalling!

The Damn Bean Counters are so freaking worried about their bottom line they would sell anything or do anything to improve their short term profits. What they ignore is that in the long run they will have NO profits, because the PRC will use the technology to undercut them in their own fields.

(Rant mode Off)

[Free the USA]

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[Zathras]

Again, Mike McGee (a ex-intel employee with an ax to grind) makes up another story.
If Intel were (and I have no knowlege of plans), it would be for chipsets, not microprocessors.
Intel's best fabs are in AZ, OR, NM with more in Israel and Ireland.

McGee's love, AMD has two major fabs, one in Austin which is being converted to Flash ONLY, and their fab in Dresden Germany which is the only AMD fab building their Athlon processor.

The point is McGee isn't bothered by AMD producing parts overseas but somehow the posibility that someday (and again I have no knowledge) Intel may build a chipset (ie low technology) fab in China, this bothers him greatly.

BTW, I am a stockholder of both AMD and Intel.

[maui_hawaii]

And the firm is also planning on boosting its presence in Malaysia and another unnamed Asian country, we have learned.

Check out posts 11, 12, and 13.

The way this sounds, if its true, (and based on my previous experience), that Intel is going to use Malaysia and the 'other country' as its export platform.

China may well be bypassed on that game. And for good reason.

[hove]

Wonderful! It's always nice to see American corporations distributing the wealth they create through labor in communist third world nations! I'm so glad that it's our very good friend and long term ally....China.