"Paralyzed Ant" <spam[at]sux.cox> writes:

> I watched Mr. Jobs keynote and one thing he said that I found
> interesting was the "G5" made in America, in upperstate New York."
> Do people take that into consideration when buying a computer?
> What country the CPU is manufactured in? All things being equal
> will someone buy a G5 made in USA over an Operton made in Germany?

Up until very recently, all the high-end microprocessor fabs (Intel,
Motorola, IBM, DEC-R.I.P.) have been in the United States. Only
recently (the past few years) has the Dresden fab come online. And
within the past two years Intel finally allowed a hefty sum of the P4
production to take place outside the U.S.

--
Edward Dodge

/Confabulation Consulting/

Flip <flippo[at]flip.com> writes:

> In article <m11xx0ex8v.fsf[at]g3.com>, Edward Dodge <someone[at]g3.com>
> wrote:
>
> > "Paralyzed Ant" <spam[at]sux.cox> writes:
> >
> > > I watched Mr. Jobs keynote and one thing he said that I found
> > > interesting was the "G5" made in America, in upperstate New
> > > York." Do people take that into consideration when buying a
> > > computer? What country the CPU is manufactured in? All things
> > > being equal will someone buy a G5 made in USA over an Operton
> > > made in Germany?
> >
> > Up until very recently, all the high-end microprocessor fabs
> > (Intel, Motorola, IBM, DEC-R.I.P.) have been in the United States.
> > Only recently (the past few years) has the Dresden fab come
> > online. And within the past two years Intel finally allowed a
> > hefty sum of the P4 production to take place outside the U.S.
>
> I seems to remember some of the Celeron 300 chips being made in
> South East Asia. IIRC, it was either the Singapore ones or the
> Malaysia ones that were particularly overclockable.

That's why you heard me say "high-end microprocessor fabs."

--
Edward Dodge

/Confabulation Consulting/

In article <m1fzlgdcso.fsf[at]g3.com>, Edward Dodge <someone[at]g3.com>
wrote:

> Flip <flippo[at]flip.com> writes:
>
> > In article <m11xx0ex8v.fsf[at]g3.com>, Edward Dodge <someone[at]g3.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > "Paralyzed Ant" <spam[at]sux.cox> writes:
> > >
> > > > I watched Mr. Jobs keynote and one thing he said that I found
> > > > interesting was the "G5" made in America, in upperstate New
> > > > York." Do people take that into consideration when buying a
> > > > computer? What country the CPU is manufactured in? All things
> > > > being equal will someone buy a G5 made in USA over an Operton
> > > > made in Germany?
> > >
> > > Up until very recently, all the high-end microprocessor fabs
> > > (Intel, Motorola, IBM, DEC-R.I.P.) have been in the United States.
> > > Only recently (the past few years) has the Dresden fab come
> > > online. And within the past two years Intel finally allowed a
> > > hefty sum of the P4 production to take place outside the U.S.
> >
> > I seems to remember some of the Celeron 300 chips being made in
> > South East Asia. IIRC, it was either the Singapore ones or the
> > Malaysia ones that were particularly overclockable.
>
> That's why you heard me say "high-end microprocessor fabs."
>

At the time, those _were_ Intel's high end fabs.