> On 21/10/14 08:11, Douglas Eadline wrote: > >> Which means to me, $1.5bn is far less than they would spend over >> the next 5-10 years running a FAB. And, I'm sure they >> get a special parking spot out front for when they need >> to make wafers. (i.e. there is more to the deal than the $1.5bn dowry) > > My cynical mind says it's the price of making sure that GF keep on > making Power for the 10 years that IBM has said they'll keep buying it.
Well yea, like an investment, but it may look better as a loss when they file taxes. -- Doug > > But I've not yet finished my first coffee of the day here. :-) > > -- > Christopher Samuel Senior Systems Administrator > VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative > Email: sam...@unimelb.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545 > http://www.vlsci.org.au/ http://twitter.com/vlsci > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > > -- > Mailscanner: Clean > -- Doug -- Mailscanner: Clean _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
