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Re:Intel Solidifies $3.5B Deal to Make Chips for Military by krisoft on Saturday September 14, 2024 @06:30AM (#41538841)
> Even if it's only three parts and the factory is only profitable when producing thousands a year.

If that is the case you manufacture more than enough and put them on a shelf.

> Some costs that will crop up even without investing in R&D and maintenance

Obviously. You put those costs in the contract and make the costumer pay for them.

If they want to fab 3 chips a year that is going to cost them dearly. This is not a property of the old processes. This is a property of low volumes.

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Re:Intel Solidifies $3.5B Deal to Make Chips for Military by bluGill on Saturday September 14, 2024 @09:49AM (#41539786)
You have to manufacture enough parts for if wwiii breaks out even though odds are it won't and even if it does the military will probable notewant those parts - but they might.
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