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Brazil Misses Enough Infrastructure for Chip Production

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Acording to Hector Ruiz, AMD CEO, in an interview to IDGNow! in Brazil, Brazil and Latin America don’t have enough infrastructure to receive a semiconductor factory, discarding any chances to build a new AMD factory in Brazil.

US$ 4 billions in investments, and 4 years, would be needed to build a new factory in Brazil, besides more government support and fiscal incentives, tax reduction and donations, and investiments on better roads, railroads, airports and ports.

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Linux Voting Machines Save US$ 8 Millions in Brazil

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

Brazilian Goverment will save US$ 8 Millions in election between 2008 and 2018. The economy is due to the use of Linux in the eletronic voting machines, made by Procomp-Diebold, it will also offer better transparency to the election process. The vulnerability tests were avaiable for anyone last saturday, April 5th, and the system will be open for propouses of modification until a month before elections.

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