Vantaggi
Investor with a long-term horizon (how much longer?). State-of-the-art equipment not a dollar spared on bells & whistles; world class semi experts (few still survived), new Gym on premises – to be named after GM who built it.
Svantaggi
Hall of Fame with names of Malta employees carved in stone looks like Cemetery now – all but few are gone. Pivoting away from bleeding edge nodes doesn’t help with bottom line – former IBM Fabs keep bleeding on the older nodes. IBM Micro 1.0 was rated as the worst foundry by the customers, its legacy R&D failed to deliver manufacturable technology despite numerous claims from CTO and all the equipment purchased and deployed. Serial and useless layoffs – “too many experts” nothing to do with the root cause.