alt Hacker NewsPrecisely. IBM paid them to take their fabs away (yes, they paid them, not the opposite, they were so obsolete that it was basically a waste disposal operation)
Precisely. IBM paid them to take their fabs away (yes, they paid them, not the opposite, they were so obsolete that it was basically a waste disposal operation)
was there some regulation preventing them from just shutting the plants down and selling off the real estate and equipment? severance payments too high?