So he would only need to sell 20 to 40 of the most expensive yacht he owns for a fab. Gabes yacht fleet is estimated from a quick search to be 6 yachts totalling 1 billion, which is 1/15th of the most quoted lower price for a new fab.
Edit: to be fair you could use ram made with DUV machines at 1 to 5 billion, which at the lower end would be all of Gabes boats. Likely this would yield 4 to 8 GB DIMMs.
And that’s only a fab itself, as in the equipment. The building cost, operational cost, insane amount of expertise, and if you’re doing the designs yourself, you can easily double that
Well, they aren’t boats, they’re yachts. Multi million dollar yachts that are custom made. If they’re busy, they’re making money, they aren’t building them at a loss.
Oh, you’d be surprised, a lot of the time they are. I get all my yacht news from random channels on YouTube, so my statistics can be skewed, but the story of “some yacht bulder fucked up and they had to recall 3 ships, so obviously they’re out of business now, so you can buy some shit for cheap at a bankruptcy auction” is a not even news at this point, it happens multiple times a year. They operate on such thin of a margin, every problem they encounter could be deadly. The cost of building a boat is astronomical.
You severely underestimate how many thousands of boats he will have to sell
Boat in this case means half-a-billion dollar super yacht.
So he would only need to sell 20 to 40 of the most expensive yacht he owns for a fab. Gabes yacht fleet is estimated from a quick search to be 6 yachts totalling 1 billion, which is 1/15th of the most quoted lower price for a new fab.
Edit: to be fair you could use ram made with DUV machines at 1 to 5 billion, which at the lower end would be all of Gabes boats. Likely this would yield 4 to 8 GB DIMMs.
And that’s only a fab itself, as in the equipment. The building cost, operational cost, insane amount of expertise, and if you’re doing the designs yourself, you can easily double that
How much collateral do you need for a loan though?
He actually owns the boat building company as well, so he can sell as many boats as he wants!
I don’t think boat building is a profitable endeavour these days. If I had to guess, I would assume most companies are losing money on that.
Well, they aren’t boats, they’re yachts. Multi million dollar yachts that are custom made. If they’re busy, they’re making money, they aren’t building them at a loss.
Oh, you’d be surprised, a lot of the time they are. I get all my yacht news from random channels on YouTube, so my statistics can be skewed, but the story of “some yacht bulder fucked up and they had to recall 3 ships, so obviously they’re out of business now, so you can buy some shit for cheap at a bankruptcy auction” is a not even news at this point, it happens multiple times a year. They operate on such thin of a margin, every problem they encounter could be deadly. The cost of building a boat is astronomical.