geeker (geeker.delete@this.mailinator.com) on February 6, 2013 12:16 pm wrote:
> Another question, does Intel and TSMC (or GF for that matter) depreciate their foundry equipment at the same
> rate?

TSMC seems to make a large chunk of their profits out of older processes (up to 150nm apparently, see the per-process break down in the article):

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/other/display/20130121093033_TSMC_s_Sales_of_28nm_Chips_in_Fourth_Quarter_Totaled_Nearly_1_Billion.html

This means that they have a far longer time frame than Intel to recover their initial investment on a specific process generation.