asianometry

I cannot speak to AMD, but for the case of Intel, it is hard to be a fast follower. The billion dollar factory translates to hundreds of millions of dollars of depreciation each year - a fixed cost that means declines in revenue hit the bottom line very hard.

That was hard for me to read. I’ll try to do better.

MediaTek is the local industry's largest fabless chip designer. I am not quite sure the Taiwanese government would allow it to be acquired.