My Life as an Awoken

Chapter 128: RAM Specifics

I walked into my factory and greeted my new staff by saying, "Hello, it’s nice to meet you all. I’m the factory owner. Let’s have a productive day. There are a few updates and calibrations I have planned today for the machines. So, expect some delays."

When I said that they all, along with Kitsumi Kiyo, seemed a little bewildered. Kitsumi Kiyo slowly asked, "You can speak the Yamato language?"

I replied, "Oh, goodness no. But, I wanted to introduce myself properly in their language. I practiced a good bit. Did it come out right? They seem a little confused."

"Yes, you said it correctly. They just were not expecting you to know how to speak their language."

"Alright, then can you tell them I’m ready to start the day?"

"Yes." Kitsumi Kiyo then started speaking to them in their language, "Ok, the owner says to start working!"

With that people started moving.

One guy went to get the materials, the others got ready to help hook it up.

Once everything was ready I pushed the big red button to start the production line.

With that accomplished we moved onto the second production line.

In a single day a production line can produce 210 sticks of RAM. That is off of the assumption that I will be making 32GB DDR5 sticks of RAM.

The current market price for a 32GB DDR5 is $484 per stick. The material cost is $20 per stick. Plus around $10 for the other fees, so $30 for production cost. The other cost is shipping, but the consumer pays for that.

So, I stand to make $101,640 a day.

Around $3,049,200 a month.

And around $36,590,400 a year for only one production line.

The material cost is $1,533,000 a year.

The price has absolutely ballooned in the last month. In November it was only $250, now it has basically doubled.

This has been a really good investment.

While the machines ran for the first two hours I walked around looking at the machines and seeing how well everything worked.

Then I had everyone go take a break while I "calibrated" the machines.

A few minutes later everyone was back to work.

I was with the entire first shift of workers, then I was with the entire second shift workers, for both of their 8 hour shifts. Then as the second shift ended and the third shift was getting ready I "calibrated" the machines again.

With both upgrades done I could now use my patented designs.

The first upgrade allowed the photolithography machine to print from 1.4 nm to 2 nm, just like the next gen models.

The second upgrade allowed the photolithography machine to print from 0.7 nm to 1 nm. It was a revolutionary development that allowed me to use the patented designs.

The reason why that is such a big deal is because the first half of the day I was making RAM sticks. I was basically doing it for free. Actually I was doing it at a loss. Because I can’t sell the RAM that I made.

So, now I have like 140 sticks of 32GB DDR5 RAM that is just dead stock.

I guess I could always use it myself. Build a large server at home. That would be cool. I bet Xue Qing would find it funny to have that buzzing away in the home theater.

Anyway, back to the upgrades.

The upgrades brought along with them more benefits. Like, efficiency and efficiency. Two different kinds.

One version is in the swiftness of making them. The overall production speed has gotten four times faster. Meaning now I can produce 840 RAM sticks a day on one production line.

But!

The second version is that because the microchips are much more efficient it takes less of them to make something similar.

Because now I am effectively making 128GB DDR7 RAM sticks. At a rate of 840 a day per production line.

The current price for 128GB DDR5 RAM is $1855.

So, that is $1,558,200 a day.

Or, $568,743,000 a year for only one production line.

With both production lines that is $1,137,486,000. A little over one billion dollars!

Now the main problem will be finding buyers. But I imagine it won’t be that hard. Especially if I am charging the same price for a superior product. I could probably charge double that and still have customers lining up around the world.

My other concern is that the product may be too good. I decided to go with the 32GB because it was the most marketable.

Is it better to go big or down size it but produce more?

Going big is $1,137,486,000 a year.

Going small is $1,187,155,200 a year.

It would seem going small would be more profitable.

Because I can make 840 128GB sticks that means that I can make 3,360 32GB sticks in a day.

Overall small wins by $49,669,200. But, I would also have to sell 1,226,400 sticks of RAM to make that money.

And the material cost would be a little less than $24,528,000 for the 32GB sticks.

The material cost for the 128GB stick is only $6,132,000? That doesn’t sound right.

Nope, that’s right. The cost is actually just inflated for producing more sticks. While the microchip cost can be lowered, the cost of the actual stick is what really drives the price up.

Wow, this is actually much closer than I thought it would be.

The gap has been lowered to $31,273,200.

So, the question is do I try to sell to corporations or do I go heavy into marketing and sell as many as I can to the general public?

It’s a really hard choice to make.

I think I should go back and talk to Xue Qing. She has more experience and might have a better view point.

Yeah. Let’s do that.