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For what it's worth, IBM is suing to try to get its $1.5 billion back, claiming that GlobalFoundries didn't uphold terms of the deal: https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/2021/06/11/ib...


That is incredible. Why did GloFo think they could just take the 1.5B and not deliver? I guess if they don't have to pay too much damages it's a huge free loan...


Because example has shown time and again that you can take the $1500 million, spend $100 million on legal fees, settle for $400 million and keep a nice $billion


Their interpretation is probably that they, as promised, spent the 1.5B trying to deliver and it didn't work out, too bad.


This is America and they’re a corporation. It’s the price of doing business.


Intel could fix that. Could be an added incentive for the deal.


Intel PowerPC. Who would have thought it would happen?




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