[bhhaskin]

Only if you put up the 10 billion dollars.

[nish__]

Machines are less than 400 million.

[q3k]

You're just talking about a lithography machine. Patterning is one step out of thousands in a modern process (albeit an important one). There's plenty more stuff needed for a production line, this isn't a 3D printer but for chips. And that's just for the FEOL stuff, then you still need to do BEOL :). And packaging. And testing (accelerated/environmental, too). And failure analysis. And...

Also, you know, there's a whole process you'll need to develop. So prepare to be not making money (but spending tons of it on running the lines) until you have a well tested PDK.

[pixl97]

And the cost of the people to run those machines, and the factories that are required to run the machines?