Manufacturing in the high revenue semiconductor industry involves a highly capital intensive process consisting of more than 300 steps.
Beyond the problem that Rentomojo is looking to solve, the most interesting part of the company is arguably the way it manages the potentially capital intensive process of ensuring supply.
But they matter much less in capital-intensive processes such as fabrication where the value of a technician or engineer might depend on how efficiently he or she can operate a $70m tool.
"Where you have a capital-intensive process," Mr. Fingleton said in an interview, "high wages are not the most important of your costs".
Unlike poppy cultivation, refining is a complicated, capital-intensive process, limiting the number of players with the financial wherewithal to participate.
Mr Autor notes that Nissan, when producing its cars in Japan, relies upon a much more capital-intensive process than when making similar models in low-wage India.So, consider a story.
Other firms plan to ship compressed, rather than liquid, gas a less capital-intensive process that might make smaller fields profitable.Meanwhile, America has recently reversed a steady decline in domestic gas production, thanks to new technology that allows firms to tap previously inaccessible gas trapped in coal, shale and some types of sandstone.
This can be a capital-intensive process.
A capital-intensive process, it consists of slicing chips from silicon wafers and attaching a kind of wrapper, or package.
Gasification is a capital-intensive process that provides a means of utilizing cheap and sometimes unpleasant feedstock.
These companies have been raising enormous sums to money both to meet demand, but also to finance the capital-intensive process of e-commerce growth.
