On 7/11/04 10:15 PM, in article , "Glenn Booth"
wrote:

But chip making is a simple, fairly automated process

That's the first time I've ever heard somebody say that chip making is a
simple process. It's not.

Correction - chip MAKING in operations is a lot more controllable and
autoamted than cable manufacturing.

If you make 1 cable and 1 chip - the cable maker has the advantage, but if
you uhave to make 100,000 the economics are reversed.

On 12 Jul 2004 04:22:24 GMT, B&D wrote:

On 7/11/04 10:15 PM, in article , "Glenn Booth"
wrote:

But chip making is a simple, fairly automated process

That's the first time I've ever heard somebody say that chip making is a
simple process. It's not.

Correction - chip MAKING in operations is a lot more controllable and
autoamted than cable manufacturing.

Nope, cable making has been highly automated for about a century.
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Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

On 7/12/04 1:04 PM, in article 8wzIc.62071$a24.29042@attbi_s03, "Stewart
Pinkerton" wrote:

On 12 Jul 2004 04:22:24 GMT, B&D wrote:

On 7/11/04 10:15 PM, in article , "Glenn Booth"
wrote:

But chip making is a simple, fairly automated process

That's the first time I've ever heard somebody say that chip making is a
simple process. It's not.

Correction - chip MAKING in operations is a lot more controllable and
autoamted than cable manufacturing.

Nope, cable making has been highly automated for about a century.

Actually you are mistaken. Almost every cable used has a lot of manual
labor - at least more than typical IC's - coaxial line, etc/.