On Tue, 9 Jul 2019 14:35:48 +0100 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 4:28 AM <[email protected]> wrote: > > > You know what happens when you can't answer one of my questions, > > right? :) tap tap tap tap ...... tap tap tap ... Aha! > > How's this, a 28/22nm chip fabrication plant for $4.2 billion? > > Not that GlobalFounderies ever had a winning process... > > https://www.anandtech.com/show/2814/3 > > And, if you read further down you can see that you can get a smaller > > plant with a College campus for $4 billion. > > cool! > <snip> Please be aware that there are 3 costs involved in a foundry (I wish I could remember or find where I read this). 1. The cost of building it. Really big. 2. The cost of starting it up for the first time. AFAIR 1/2 of the cost of building it. 3. The cost of running it. Normally the customers pay for this. So, just having the funds to build a foun doesn't mean we can start producing chips. Sincerely, David _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
