Re: Full frame D-SLR - get over it

[Dag T]

Remember silicon price per area has been pretty constant for decades.  
The digital revolution has to do with more circuitry into the same 
area, this is of little help here.

The ultimate limit for defect ratio is the entropy of the crystal 
structure, and that obviously increases with the chip area.

I think large chips will always be expensive.  That�s why I the full 
frame sensors will be more relevant for todays MF market than 135.

DagT

P� mandag, 11. august 2003, kl. 20:27, skrev T Rittenhouse:

That assumes that there is not a break through in the production of 
larger
chips. At the rate of change in FAB quality, I would predict that the 
cost
differential will soon be less than the difference in chip area. 
Almost no
one 10 years ago believed they would ever be able to make the chips 
that are
nothing special today.

Ciao,
Graywolf