That should be right for a low volume chip that is only made in the hundreds, not hundreds of thousands. If you go to a freeplay fab in Taiwan and ask for something in that quantity you will get bill. But it does not mean anything like 10GHz. You can make a 10GHz chip cost like a thousand bucks if you make enough of it, and 10MHz chip in the tens of thousands if you only produce so much of it.
But that not for a chip that you would have to create a special fab or process to make. In which case the total number of chips made would have to be equal to the cost of the fab, the R.D process and the corporate overhead. We’re talking of tens if not hundreds of millions here.
By the way, obsolete chips do cost a lot to make nowadays, because you have to keep an obsolete plant with a 0.8 to 0.5 micron process just to make them, and without any other other viable commercial product to support such a plant, those chips have alone to shoulder the cost and overhead of keeping such a plant alive.
Crapola. You do need to realize that bulk of revenues Intel, AMD and etc,. makes are in the commercial sector. Try reading their financial statements next time. These statements are prepared by third party accounting firms and would have very much to answer for. So yes, you cannot hide “unseen” sources of revenue from public eyes.
The technology goes where the money is.
Nanotubes are still not applicable processes. This does not prove your assertion that the F-22 has 10GHz CPUs by one bit.
You are the one who needs to get real. They’re not taking apart how to see the semiconductors work, but how the entire systems work, especially with the encryption.
You can see how the US government is so behind in its idea of tech that it considers chips inside any Power Mac G3 and Sony Playstation 2 to be nonexportable to China.
Not without a major lawsuit.
Show me that statement man. That’s really a bad design you’re talking about. For real time control processes, which an aircraft is, the best architectures are modular highly distributed systems. That’s one reason why you have buses like the old Mil Std. 1533 spec. With monolithic systems, you have a high chance that a failure will take down EVERYTHING. There is no redudancy against failure or battle damage.
By the way, many commercial chips now have the power of a Cray supercomputer of the past. Why do you think they attempted to put Power Macs in the no export list to China?
Sand it well enough, and you can take the labels off. Commercial chips are so dimed down nowadays, companies don’t really want to spend a lot of money on label dyes so it will stay there permanently.
And yes, you can believe that the latest Air Bus and B-777 have later techs than the military, hence why some of the latest Boeing planes have been export banned from China because a certain chip there used in the navigation systems are the same as those used in cruise missiles. Maybe you need to figure out why some of those commercial planes cost as much as, or more than an F-22. Do you think GE’s most powerful turbofan engine is used in the military? Guess again.
The issue about chip export restrictions has angered many developers as this has caused their products to be cut out from many markets. This may even prompt a move to create chips that they won’t sell to the US military, so there will be no export restrictions on them.
Silicon Graphics owns the MIPS RISC architectural design. MIPS are common chips used in microcontrolling applications. You can find them in Playstation 1 and 2 among others. That Nintendo box before the Game Cube had a MIPS chip and even used the SGI connection with their ads (the chip is a 100MHz R4000 with a 64 bit bus). One of the most common MIPS processors for embedded use is the R3000 which has a 25MHz version. Yes, variants from this family is used in the Playstation 1 and in the modular mission computers in the F-16 MLU.
hmm,all ps2 are made at a factory in shanghai.
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