Rob Studdert wrote:
On 30 Sep 2005 at 13:45, Toralf Lund wrote:
I'm quite sure the price as such isn't high enough to matter - I mean,
if you can actually utilise all the silicon and/or don't need
special-quality material to get usable components. I have a chip in
front of me that measures 30x30 mm, and costs $10 per unit when
purchased in large batches...
I would bet that the area of it contains silicon is probably 25mm2 or less.
I must admit I don't know how much of such a chip is actually silicon -
but I'm talking about one big, black lump of the size indicated, not one
of the obviously multi-unit thingies like modern CPUs.
Anyhow, the point is just that based on the fact that the price you pay
for various kinds of chips that at least contains *some* silicon is next
to nothing and/or hardly more than what the actual production must cost,
I'm find it hard to believe that the cost of silicon *as such* is much
of an issue in the context we are discussing here.
- Toralf
