On Sep 29, 10:21 am, Bama Brian wrote:
wf3h wrote:

In fact, I could say you're not even qualified to evaluate my resume.

again, you know zip about the industry, it seems

It is you who knows zip about the industry, Mr. "Service Engineer". I'd
put you on a par with the "Sanitation Engineers" who used to sweep the
floors. Or those so-called "Programming Engineers."

ROFLMAO!! you don't even know the difference between a field service
engineer and an applications engineer!

this is precious!

In fact, the unions never got so much as a toehold in Silicon Valley.

exactly my point. those who claim unions destroyed these companies are
wrong. even you admit that by pointing out the companies that have
closed...NONE of which were unionized

Your original point was that unions were significant in keeping the
semiconductor companies alive. But from Silicon Valley perspective,
unions were nothing but a money sinkhole, sucking up money that could
better be used on R&D, capital equipment, or even salaries.

and how'd that work out for silicon valley, keeping the unions out?
you yourself posted a list of closed plants...all non-union.

worked great, didnt it?


As to their two chip plants, only the one in Fishkill has been renovated
to be commercially viable. The other stays alive doing God knows what.
Certainly they won't tell me, and I'm not inclined to do a white paper
for you for free.

don't flatter yourself

I didn't have to. My pay check did. Besides, you're not competent to
evaluate the P&L of a wafer fab.

says the guy who doesn't know what an applications engineer is....




Most, if not all, semi plants today survive by manufacturing for others
as well as the parent company. Look up Globalfoundries and Taiwan
Semiconductor for examples.

charter was j ust purchased last week. yes, i'm familiar with the
foundries. you seem surprised by teh economics of the industry...NONE
of which is union related.

Globalfoundries is the name of a company; foundries is a generic term
for semiconductor fabrication plants. Do try to keep up.

i guess you forgot you wrote 'for example'...

short term memory going on you? that why you're right wing?





i used to work for TI...they laid off their harvard/caltech/mit
researchers and outsourced R and D to TSMC...

But you weren't at that level, were you?

nope i was not. but the point seems to have gone over your head. no
surprise.



But the industry is not dead; even if the plants are mostly all offshore
today

it's certainly dead in the US.

Er, no. Not as much manufacturing as I'd like to see - but nowhere near
dead.

really? short term memory problems again? forget about that list of
closed plants you posted?

how they doing?