A dozen or so well-resourced tech titans in China are no doubt asking themselves this same question right now.

Of course, it takes quite some time for a fab to go from an idea to mass production. Even in China. Expect prices to drop 2-3 years from now when all the new capacity comes online?

As someone with no skills in the space, no money, and lives near Ottawa: I'd love to help start a fab in Ontario.

Hear me out- artisanal DRAM.

I hope you have very deep pockets. But I'm cheering you on from the sidelines.

But what if it's a bubble driven by speculation?

It wouldn't pay off.

Starting a futures exchange on RAM chips, on the other hand...

Only if you put up the 10 billion dollars.

Sure, we can work on brining in TinyTapeout to modern fab