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Samsung grabs the 450 mm pie
Jun 12 2008, Jaiyant Cavale

The 450 mm wafers could trounce the monopoly of IC and chip-equipment and force them to file for insolvency. Well, this could be a hypothetical situation as the wafers are quite gamble and can trounce themselves into bankruptcy. In an industry which...

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