- Order could come in in the 1st or 2nd half. A few tens of millions depending on the timing and the scope of the order.
- Cost of OVPD development is 15-17 million in the previous and this year
note: I believe Iruja picked up the other part of the development cost in 2019 and 2020 to gain the equity. It used to be ~25m a year.
- No change of interest on OVPD by the customer:
"...So as I mentioned before in the introduction, we see very strong interest from the customer due to the value proposition of our product. And now it's about to sort out all the topics coming along with developing such a new technology, which is both fine-tuning the process, the profit windows, but also doing tweaks here and there on the tool to really get it to the maturity level that has been established as a benchmark by the incumbent VTE technology."
- Aixtron see no negative sign from the customer and has no plan to change path on OVPD:
"Well, first of all, let me mention that we are confident to get this thing up and running, right? Not to give the wrong connotation just because there has now been two questions asking what -- about the what-if question. And we are also currently, as mentioned before, confident about the high customer interest. It's now about getting things up and running.
And, I mean, if for some reasons, yes, it's so to say a hypothetical question at this point in time, things don't work out as planned, then I think at the moment of decision it remains to be seen what exactly is the situation, what exactly are the reasons and then to take the best course of action in the interest of our shareholders. And I think we can't say more what exactly that is."
-The new APEVA Korea leader is Korean with years of display experience at Applied Materials and fits into Aixtron's strategy of using the local people to build up that organization closer to the customer.
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