On 12 Nov 2003 at 23:05, John Dallman wrote: > A McKinley Itanium is about 400 square millimetres, and sold for about > $3500 each, in quantities of a thousand. The APS-sized sensor in the *istD > is around the same size, and sells for about $700 in the same quantities. > In both cases, you have to get the silicon area masked, etched and > deposited in several layers with zero "significant defects", So the first > question is "Why is the *istD sensor so cheap?"
Sure they are complex devices however I'd suggest that your mistake is to believe that the cost that you see is directly related to the cost to produce. the cost is far less than you imagine and is primarily determined by what the target market will bear. Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
