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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Saturn V who wrote (64914)7/12/1999 5:18:00 PM
From: Steve Porter  Read Replies (1) of 1579911
 
Saturn,

You are forgetting one thing in your post:

Once the die size becomes very small a shrink is typically not worth the effort. The product cost is dominated by the material cost of the package. A plastic package will cost $6 to $ 10, while a ceramic package like the one used by K-6 will cost $15 to $30.

Once they shrink the K6-2 from .25 to .18 they can probably drop the operating voltage, thereby lower the power consumption, thereby move to a plastic pacakge, and save $9 - $25 a chip. Well worth the transition IMHO.

Steve
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