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lizknopetoday at 12:06 AM0 repliesview on HN

The semiconductor industry has been a boom and bust industry for over 50 years.

https://imgur.com/a/cDLoeZm

I've been in the industry for 30 years and I've worked at companies with fabs were demand was high and customers would only get 30% of what they ordered. Then just 2 years later our fab was only running at 50% capacity and losing money. It takes about $20 billion and 3-4 years to make a modern new fab. If you think that AI is a bubble then do you want to be left with a shiny new factory and no products to sell because demand has collapsed?