MacBook and iPad production delayed as supply crunch hits Apple

Re:MacBook and iPad production delayed as supply crunch hits... by eric_b on Thursday April 08, 2021 @08:59PM (#26745667)

Those ASML EUV machines are like 100-200 million dollars apiece. I can't imagine what the lead time on something like that is. And of course you need people to run them, a space to run them in, and everything else. There can't be too many industries with bigger capital outlays than cutting-edge semi fab.

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Re:MacBook and iPad production delayed as supply crunch hits... by brudgers on Thursday April 08, 2021 @09:26PM (#26745817)

That's the price of a moderately sized public high school in the US...without considering the land.

For example Pinole Valley High School https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2016/04/14/west-contra-costa-sc...

Google says Contra Costa County has nine high schools.

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Re:MacBook and iPad production delayed as supply crunch hits... by eric_b on Thursday April 08, 2021 @09:59PM (#26745969)

I don't understand your comment. Are you refuting that semiconductor fabrication is capital intensive? Are you comparing it somehow to building high schools? Like... what?

The new fab TSMC is building in Arizona is 12 BILLION DOLLARS - for a single fab.

That's 100 of these high schools for the price of a single fab facility.

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