“Heck Intel stole technology from Digital and got away with it” Can you tell me what the heck you are talking about?
Intel was accused by Bill Palmer, the then CEO of Digital and now a director at AMD, of stealing Digital technology at a time that when Digital was running out of money going broke. Digital obviously couldn’t prove their claim and they settled and Digital did not receive anything for their claim that Intel stole their secrets and Intel ended up the buying Digital’s losing money fab in Hudson, Mass. The fab is still one of Intel fabs and apparently operated at a profit. Digital at its demise was carved up into pieces, some went here and some went there. Digital engineers went to both Intel and AMD.
AMD two fabs are in the EU and are heavily subsidized by the EU. However on March 2, 2009 AMD in a spin off transferred the fabs to GlobalFoundries which is a company 65% owned by the government of Abu Dhabi and 35% owned by AMD.
Digital received the sale of that fab to Intel at a very nice price.
I never said Intel couldn’t run their plants well. I just said they stole some of the technology they sell. At least according to court documents and public statements at the time.
If Intel wasn’t guilty they wouldn’t have purchased the building, equipment, and employees where the technology was made.