Real Countries Have Fabs

Ed Sperling, Semiconductor Engineering
April 17th, 2014

Analysis: Rumblings about IBM selling off its semiconductor business have created some interesting possibilities, and lots of speculation.

Persistent rumblings about the sale of IBM’s semiconductor unit might have seemed absurd a couple decades ago—before IBM sold off its PC unit to Lenovo and lost the gaming chip business to AMD’s x86 chips—but no one is scoffing at the possibility these days.