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News Intel opens Vietnamese testing facility

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  1. CardJoe

    CardJoe Freelance Journalist

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  2. Instagib

    Instagib Minimodder

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    There is no wonder where the money is coming from with intel posting record profits last quater. If the investment was made in 2007 though, doesn't that pre-date the economic crisis?

    AMD are gonna find it harder and harder to compete in the future.
     
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  3. Redbeaver

    Redbeaver The Other Red Meat

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    how can those intel workers eat their Pho with their full suit on?
     
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  4. BRAWL

    BRAWL Dead and buried.

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    Sucks to be AMD right now...
     
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  5. thelaw

    thelaw What's a Dremel?

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    AMD will have to pull a rabbit out of the Hat or they will be done...its a bill gates microsoft all over again with intel...they will be the only supplier of decent CPUs shortly.
     
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  6. The_Beast

    The_Beast I like wood ಠ_ಠ

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    And the consumer, if Intel is in a one horse race, they can do whatever they want with the prices


    In otherwords SCREW US OUT OF OUR MONIES
     
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  7. Snips

    Snips I can do dat, giz a job

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    Let's be brutally honest here, they've had no competition for quite a few years now. So why haven't they started over charging already?
     
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  8. thehippoz

    thehippoz What's a Dremel?

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    hehe yeah really

    too bad they couldn't build the plants here.. oh yeah I forgot
     
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  9. Technobod

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    imo, they have been for a while...
     
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  10. Snips

    Snips I can do dat, giz a job

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    £75 for the i3 - 540, £135 for i5 - 760 and £215 for i7 - 950.

    The equivilant AMD is similarly priced but in direct comparison under performing. I take it you want your CPU's for free?
     
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  11. Optimaximal

    Optimaximal What's a Dremel?

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    People, we're missing the real question here...

    Why are they testing these things on the Vietnamese?!
     
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  12. cheeriokilla

    cheeriokilla What's a Dremel?

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    They're the only ones born with the right socket to test em on...
     
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  13. Cthippo

    Cthippo Can't mod my way out of a paper bag

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    Despite the humorous intent, it's a good question.

    Why Vietnam?

    Answer: price

    So far China has been the high-tech center and Vietnam and Malaysia have been the cheap places to manufacture, but were not thought of as being capable of this quality of work. Intel's trying to see if they can develop the technical capability so that in the future they can move more of their production to Vietnam to take advantage of the cheaper labor costs.
     
    Cthippo, 2 Nov 2010
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