Erik Trimble <[email protected]> wrote: > Because it was quite behind the current bleeding edge in terms of > process size, that meant there were a large number of available contract > Fabs that were able to manufacture the chip, and per-chip costs were > significantly less than one might expect for "current era" CPU. That > is, sure, Intel can do 22nm nowadays, but the plant that makes that > costs $20 BILLLION or more. That's a whole lot of sunk cost to recuperate.
The development costs for Sun4m have been 3 million US$, the development costs for the first Pentium (at the same time) was 3 billion US$. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
