On Tue, 9 Jul 2019 14:35:48 +0100 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl@lkcl.net wrote:
On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 4:28 AM doark@mail.com wrote:
You know what happens when you can't answer one of my questions, right? :) tap tap tap tap ...... tap tap tap ... Aha! How's this, a 28/22nm chip fabrication plant for $4.2 billion? Not that GlobalFounderies ever had a winning process... https://www.anandtech.com/show/2814/3 And, if you read further down you can see that you can get a smaller plant with a College campus for $4 billion.
cool!
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Please be aware that there are 3 costs involved in a foundry (I wish I could remember or find where I read this). 1. The cost of building it. Really big. 2. The cost of starting it up for the first time. AFAIR 1/2 of the cost of building it. 3. The cost of running it. Normally the customers pay for this.
So, just having the funds to build a foun doesn't mean we can start producing chips.
Sincerely, David