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rcxdudeyesterday at 9:58 PM1 replyview on HN

Chip manufacturing has unusually long spin-up times, high capital costs and relatively thin margins for anything but the latest and greatest processes, compared to most industries.


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bigbadfelineyesterday at 11:44 PM

Well, let's remove the sanctions from China then and we'll get a better idea about costs and spin-times.

BTW all RAM is severely overpriced, not only the one using the latest process nodes.