Is Toshiba Going Fabless?
September 10, 2009
Could Toshiba be going fabless? It seems unimaginable, but an official Toshiba spokeswoman, Hiroko Mochida, said earlier this week that Toshiba is considering out-sourcing 28nm chips where demand exceeds Toshiba's capacity.
However analysts like Yuichi Ishida, of Mizuho Investors Securities, point out that it's daft to spend billions to make 28nm chips if you can outsource them. Ishida expects Toshiba to out-source all its 28nm production.
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