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> 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.




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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