Intel buys Tower Semiconductor to expand fab business Intel has confirmed its plans to spend $5.4bn to acquire Israeli chip firm Tower Semiconductor as part of its scheme to expand and diversify its chip manufacturing business. The US chipmaker announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Tower Semiconductor, which specialises in manufacturing high-value …
You said those two in the same breath without breaking out into derrisive snickers, snorts, &/or outright laughter?
It says something that Intel has to buy someone else in order to become said marketing buzzwords as they've lost the ability to be so on their own.
They have to contract to a competitor in order to reliably get their own products made because they can no longer do it themselves.
The new Intel logo should read "Intel: Using Someone Else's."
ShadowSystems:
"Using Someone Else's" is the current hot item in computing doncha know, Cloud and all that. Intel and IBM and (cough) MS were the the bee all and end all some time back. Now they're all "Using Someone Else's". Intel using someone else's foundries, IBM using someone else's Cloud, MS using someone else's code.
The dumbing down is getting very wide spread of late think you not?
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