"A name? Let me think..."
They had decided to open a security store, but they had yet to name it. Calling it the Wizard Security Store would work, but it hardly seemed memorable.
Since they were aiming to rival the Aurors, the name had to be impressive and intimidating.
Murphy thought for a moment. "Avengers?"
No, that wouldn't work...
Wizards who knew nothing about Marvel would probably think they were a bunch of villains.
Justice League?
Forget it... That felt a little ironic.
"Let's go with... Watchmen."
As a future alternative to the Aurors, they would watch over the peace of the wizarding world. What could be more fitting?
"I had someone run the numbers. Building an eight-inch chip fabrication plant using a 1.5-micron process would require an investment of roughly thirty million to a hundred million pounds. That mainly depends on the number of lithography machines and the production capacity. If we're only producing one or two specific chips, fifty million pounds should be enough."
"But your plan also calls for producing memory chips, which means at least four or five chip types. That would require an investment of at least a hundred and thirty million pounds."
"If you also intend to design the IP cores and chip architecture ourselves, developing everything from scratch, the cost would be at least five times that. It could even become a bottomless pit."
"Then there's the development of the supporting systems and basic applications. Let's put that at a hundred million pounds, and that's a conservative estimate. If development drags on too long, that could become another bottomless pit."
"And those are only the development and production costs. The money needed afterward for marketing, promotion, and so on would be substantial too."
"In short, don't even think about realizing your plan