3 posts and columns on fab

oBaz Wants to Rebuild the Online Deal Site, With Help From Groupon’s Founders

in Commerce on December 17, 2011 at 10:48 am PT

The rise of limited-stock daily deal sites has brought the stress of holiday shopping to the Web. But oBaz, a new online boutique start-up, is trying to quiet the storm with a little help from you.
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Siri, Why Don’t You Have A Texas Accent?

in News on December 16, 2011 at 11:57 am PT

Surprise! Apple’s A5 chip is made by Samsung in Texas. That’s not the only thing inside the iPhone that comes from the Lone Star State.
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Absolutely Fabless

in News on October 7, 2008 at 7:11 am PT

If it’s true that “real men have fabs,” as Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Chairman W. J. “Jerry” Sanders III once said, then AMD is the semiconductor industry’s latest eunuch. This morning the chipmaker said it will spin off its manufacturing operations, splitting itself into two companies–one to design chips and one to make them.