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This is short for fabrication plant. A fab is a factory that takes raw silicon wafers and creates chips with them. Often, fabs are categorized by what process they use. For example, the Intel Pentium chip with MMX was produced in a fab with a 0.35 micron process. Fabrication plants cost billions of dollars to build and are outdated within years. However, they can have a decent life producing volume products after they ar
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Fab - Comcast to Deliver RealNetworks' Rhapsody Digital Music Serviceto its Nearly Five Million Broadband Internet Customers- Nov 10, 2003 11:00 AM (PR Newswire)Nation's #1 Broadband Provider and #1 Digital Music Subscription ServiceTo Launch Major TV and Online Promotion Providing Free Access to Rhapsody's400,000 Song LibraryRhapsody Provides Broadband Customers Fun and Legal Way to Enjoy MusicPHILADELPHIA and SEATTLE, Nov. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Comcast,the nation's leading broadband Internet provider, and RealNetworks(Nasdaq: RNWK), the global leader in digital media services andsoftware, today announced that Comcast will provide its nearly fivemillion high-speed Internet customers and broadband music enthusiaststhe ability to maximize their broadband connections by offeringRealNetworks' Rhapsody, the country's leading Internet jukeboxservice, via a co-branded website accessible on Comcast's premierbroadband customer destination home page at Comcast.net.Rhapsody's digital music service provides unlimited access to a vastlibrary of music from all five major music labels plus more than 200independent music labels. From Elvis Presley and Sting to Outkast andClay Aiken, the easy-to-use Rhapsody service features more than400,000 songs.The Rhapsody service is unique in that it allows subscribers to accessmore than 30,000 albums instantly, listen to complete albums, createcustom playlists and burn CDs for 79 cents per track from hundreds ofgenres of music. Further, the service offers more than 50commercial-free radio stations. There are no limits or meters for useof the service. The service is easy to use and better for consumersthan the illicit sharing of music via peer-to-peer networks. WithRhapsody, customers don't have to wait for downloads or contend withother users' cluttered hard drives.- http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=36407567
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