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Capitalism: Monopolisation of chipmakers
  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    The number of IC companies that own and operate 200mm fabs, which reached its peak of 76 in 2007, has now fallen to 58, IC Insights said.

    The number of IC companies that own and operate 300mm fabs, which reached its peak of 29 in 2008, has arrived at 23, IC Insights disclosed.

    Industry moves IC fabrication onto larger wafers in bigger fabs, the group of IC manufacturers continues to shrink in number

    This is how capitalism laws work.

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  • TronTron

    Consolidation curve. https://hbr.org/2002/12/the-consolidation-curve

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  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    @Tron

    Your link is quite fun liberals interpretation of core capitalism law (also notice now specifically it looks, how almost evenly points are distributed fully contrary to actual data).

    Btw this same law also leads to huge blood and wars.

  • MaxDepthMaxDepth

    Things are tough now. Progress stopped.

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