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For that matter, how much does it cost to start a RAM manufacturer?
What could it cost..$10?
Ballpark $100,000,000,000 and five years per factory.
Modern semiconductors are very complicated to produce.
A hundred billion? I don't actually know, but that seems too high. I've worked as an automation engineer in a bunch of factories and know that you can get a fairly complex fairly large factory for 9 figures. I know semiconductors are complicated but so are a lot of things. I'd guess it's closer to a billion depending on scale/size/location.
5 years to start up a factory is fast, but doable.