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Intel plans to spend $7 billion upgrading its U.S. factories over the next two years, a sign that the recession hasn't extinguished chip makers' lust for cutting-edge equipment and engineering talent.
The Santa Clara-based company's investment, announced Tuesday by Intel CEO Paul Otellini at a speech in Washington, speaks to the need in the semiconductor industry to keep investing heavily, regardless of the economic climate.
That will likely be a boon to companies that produce chip-making equipment, like Applied Materials and KLA-Tencor , and is another example of how Intel's deep pockets have kept smaller rival Advanced Micro Devices at bay.
AMD , having lost nearly $7 billion over the past two years, wants to break off its factories into a separate company to unload some debt and save money. A shareholder vote on the plan was scheduled for Tuesday morning. AMD is the world's No. 2 maker of personal-computer microprocessors, after Intel.
Intel says the latest investment is the most it has ever spent on a transition to new manufacturing technology.
Every couple of years, chip companies make the multibillion-dollar transition to new equipment that enables chips with smaller and smaller circuitry. The change lets them make each chip more powerful, and is essential to maintaining Moore's Law, the prediction by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore that the number of transistors on a chip will double about every two years.
Moore's Law has been the chip industry's benchmark for technological progress for more than 40 years, but chip makers are finding it harder to maintain because of physical limitations of the materials.
Intel said the $7 billion will pay for new machinery at factories in Oregon, Arizona and New Mexico, which will be outfitted to produce chips based on 32-nanometer technology. The most advanced chips are currently made with features as small as 45 nanometers.
But Intel's investment doesn't necessarily mean lots of new jobs will be created.
The money will pay the salaries of about 7,000 "high-wage, high-skill" jobs that already exist at those plants.
The investment comes as Intel is struggling with the worst PC market in years.
The company is cutting up to 6,000 manufacturing jobs by closing plants in Malaysia and the Philippines and stopping production at facilities in Oregon and California.
Intel is also closing a factory in China, where 2,000 workers will have their jobs shifted to other cities. Intel says those workers will be offered the chance to relocate.
Intel does three-quarters of its semiconductor manufacturing in the U.S.
Die Schweizer UBS treibt nach dem Milliardenverlust ihre Neuausrichtung mit Hochdruck voran: 10.000 Mitarbeiter werden wohl ihren Job verlieren. In einem Punkt verspricht die Bank allerdings Kontinuität - Boni werden weiterhin ausgeschüttet. In Milliardenhöhe.
www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,606601,00.html
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Frage in die Runde:
Wie findet ihr Prämien an Mitarbeiter profitabler Abteilungen einer Pleitebank?
"Von der Bonussumme seien 994 Millionen Franken vertraglich fest vereinbart und 1,161 Milliarden Franken freiwillig. Der freiwillige Anteil gehe zu 60 Prozent an die Mitarbeiter der profitablen Vermögensverwaltung. "
"In der hochdefizitären Investmentbank sinke die Bonussumme um 95 Prozent."
Was kann der Sparbuchkundenbetreuer dafür, dass einige Ihren 'Hals nicht voll bekommen' ?
A compromise stimulus package to revive the U.S. economy now hinges on negotiations between President Barack Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
The Senate and House have passed competing bills calling for $838 billion and $819 billion respectively in new spending and tax cuts.
Obama wants a deal as soon as possible in the range of $800 billion. His main goal will be to see that a compromise bill retains enough Senate Republican support to avoid a new round of procedural hurdles that would slow final passage.
That means the negotiated compromise cannot be loaded with even more government spending. Passage of a final, compromise bill could come either late this week or next week.
Here are some possible elements of a compromise:
— In a gesture to Pelosi, Obama complained Monday about how much money for education the Senate had cut and said some should be restored.
Last week Pelosi assailed the Senate for removing $16 billion intended to rebuild schools. Obama has now opened the door to a partial restoration. "We need the White House to step in and referee," said an aide to the House Democratic leadership.
—Pelosi has in the past staked out out positions that end up being difficult to sell.
Some examples include her failed drive over the past two years to bring all U.S. troops home from Iraq and her inability to stop expanded offshore oil drilling last year.
She may now have to give up some of the emergency spending she wants, including some aid to states.
But as Speaker of the House, she could insert that money into other bills Congress will debate later this year.
—The Senate bill includes a temporary fix of the Alternative Minimum Tax so that middle-class taxpayers do not get sucked into paying a tax originally aimed at the rich. Taking this tax change out of the economic stimulus bill would knock $70 billion off the cost and score points among moderate House Democrats.
They want the tax fix, but unlike the Senate, they also want to pay for it so it doesn't add more government debt. However House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer doubts the Senate would agree to removing the AMT.
—Some key senators predict tax incentives to encourage new auto and home sales could be revised during negotiations.
—Obama, Pelosi and Reid agree time is of the essence. More important than the details, the three Democrats want the stimulus enacted by mid-February to help stem job losses.
One House Republican aide acknowledged, "Right now I don't see any major bomb that would blow this thing up." Some Republican aides were even speculating that as many as 20 House Republicans could end up voting for a compromise bill, after none voted for the first version.
President Obama hailed the Senate's approval of an $838 billion economic stimulus package on Tuesday, but said more work remained to get the legislation to his desk for his signature.
"That's good news," Obama said after an aide passed him a note informing him about the Senate vote as he conducted a town hall meeting in Fort Myers, Florida. "I want to thank of all the members of the Senate who have moved the process forward," he said.
"We've still got to get the House bill and the Senate bill to match up before it gets sent to my desk, so we have a little more work to do over the next couple of days. It's a good start."
With scant Republican support, the Democratic-controlled Senate voted 61-37 to approve the package Tuesday, which differs significantly from the $819 billion measure the House of Representatives passed almost two weeks ago.
bei dem Typ sieht man, dass er kein Träumer ist. Sehr präzise das Problem erklärt und ausgeführt, dass der erste Schritt zur Problemlösung die Wiederherstellung des Immobilienmarktes ist. Die in den Raum gestellten Summen müssen so hoch sein - die aufgetürmten Probleme können nicht durch halbherzige Konjunkturspritzen á la $500-Steuergutschrift und TARP-Regelungen, die sowieso keine Anreize zur Nutzung mitsich bringen.
Eins ist klar: Das Medikament wovon die kranke US-Wirtschaft jahrelang gelebt hat, wirkt nicht mehr. Es muss härteres her, eine Art Chemotherapie, ein kompletter Rundumschlag.
Die CNBC-Bagage findet das Ganze natürlich nicht gut: He's addressing a wrong problem... Warum? Das System zur Kapitalausbeutung ist vorbei. Die Kein-Wert-Schaffenden Banker der Wall Street haben ausgespielt. Letzte Boni sind ausbezahlt, liebe angehende Investmentbanker: LOOK FOR AN ANOTHER JOB!
DER Markt fällt so stark wie seit Dezember nicht mehr: Klar, man hat wahrscheinlich ein neues Konjunkturpaket nach der Gießkannenmethode zu verteilendes, allheilendes Mittel erwartet.
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