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Re:Why IBM Is Suing GlobalFoundries over Chip Roadmap Failures by jacquesm on Monday June 14, 2021 @07:56AM (#27501526)
IBM will have - as the seller - a hard time arguing they weren't aware of the problems with delivering the 10 nm process chips on time or even at all on a schedule that was still commercially interesting to GF. For the 7 nm process the same holds to a large extent: if the company could not deliver on its 10 nm promises any bets involving the 7 nm process were instant long shots.

IBM knew very well what the state of the division was when it got rid of it, it will now have to prove in court that it could not have known that this was a real possibility.

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Re:Why IBM Is Suing GlobalFoundries over Chip Roadmap Failures by dralley on Monday June 14, 2021 @08:35AM (#27501823)
Global Foundaries pulling the plug on 7nm was by most accounts a financial decision, not a technical one. Their 7nm process was essentially ready, but the owners of Global Foundary (Mubadala Investment Company) haven't seen a profit for the past decade, and decided to stick to older and less expensive process nodes rather than spending billions retooling their factories and trying to keep up with TSMC and Samsung.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13277/globalfoundries-stops-a...

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Re:Why IBM Is Suing GlobalFoundries over Chip Roadmap Failures by jacquesm on Monday June 14, 2021 @08:55AM (#27501968)
And IBM with all their might and foresight couldn't possibly have seen the writing on the wall when they sold it? They could have asked Watson ;)
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Re:Why IBM Is Suing GlobalFoundries over Chip Roadmap Failures by Goety on Monday June 14, 2021 @04:56PM (#27508197)
> ... decided to stick to older and less expensive process nodes rather than spending billions retooling their factories and trying to keep up with TSMC and Samsung.

I would love to see their rationale for this.

> In March 2021, Mubadala Investment Company and its joint venture Abu Dhabi Catalyst Partners announced the purchase of Telegram convertible bonds worth $150 million.

Wow looks like they like to waste a lot of money.

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