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Technology Stocks : IDTI - an IC Play on Growth Markets
IDTI 48.990.0%Mar 29 5:00 PM EST
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To: wmf who wrote (9118)7/8/1998 9:31:00 PM
From: Scumbria   of 11555
 
For the integrated chip you might actually end up with a more expensive package because you exchange one big package with tight processor specs against a small package with tight specs and another small package with loose specs.

Package cost is based mostly on pin count.

I don't know what National has planned, but it is not hard to imagine a PCOAC in a very small pin count package, and thus low cost. If all the functionality of the computer is contained within the die, why do you need a lot of pins?

Scumbria
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