materialize

Efforts to turn around the business, if they materialize at all, may take a while.

Tan said in July that the company wouldn’t invest in its next-generation manufacturing technology, called 14A, unless meaningful demand from an outside customer materialized.

He sees growing interest, including in rising attendance at conferences he has organized in Berlin, New York and Sydney under the title Mission 2044, but said deals are slower to materialize.

If that demand materializes, it could be a tremendous boon for traders and exchanges, since both typically profit when more people are buying and selling stocks.

“If a broad altcoin rally is still in the cards, it will likely take weeks or months or longer to materialize.”