the normal way to do that is by hiring/firing to meet demand, but in the fab business, you have 10s of billions of dollars of capex with relatively little opex. if you're running at <90% capacity, you're losing money.
the normal way to do that is by hiring/firing to meet demand, but in the fab business, you have 10s of billions of dollars of capex with relatively little opex. if you're running at <90% capacity, you're losing money.
That is the common way, but there are companies that manage without hiring/firing. (or they hire temp workers). There is a minimum level of capacity you need to run just to keep the lights on, and figuring out how to get that low without impacting your ability to serve the highs is hard. Memory manufactures have not gotten very low, probably for good reasons, but it is something they should work on.