GT Advanced Technologies Inc fka GTAT

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I believe that past practice was to get 20% to 40% of the PO price up front...typically non refundable. The down payment was based on PO size and size and health of the customer. For Tera Xtal I would guess that it was 20% of the PO price.

COGS was in the $250+ K range and 40% to 50% GM was the target so $500 to $625 would be a reasonable guess as to sell price.
Boule size was 85Kg to 115Kg.

The chamber size for this order was the same as those installed in Mesa. The hot zone and other internals may have had some redesign to accommodate a larger crucible for the larger boule size. 265 Kg would fit into this chamber. The tech problem is that crystal growth does not scale easily and there are ALOT of variables to tune. 265 Kg seems achievable but the allowed time frame was unrealistic. It took 30 days to grow a 265Kg boule and that was for one set of variables. With so many variables 9 months would not surprise me. Granted they could be running multiple recipies in multiple chambers but if the cooling water loss and loss of power was as bad as stated there was a lot of wheel spinning and waster / loss time.