[email protected] (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) writes: > intel's new 14nm fab @$5B assuming 4yr recovery of upfront costs (use > declining as new technology fabs come online and obsolete it) and > hypothetical 100,000 wafers/month ... would be 4.8m wafers or $1m/wafer > ... at 1383 chips/wafer that is $753.19/chip (besides what ever the > operating costs and profit are).
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#87 Demonstrating Moore's law finger slip $5B upfront for fab, 4.8m wafers over 4yrs or $1k/wafer and $.72/chip (at 1383 chips/wafer) ... they could do only 1.2m wafers total (before obsolete by next chip technology) and still come out at $4167/wafer (upfront overhead costs) and $3/chip (at 1383chips/wafer) -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
