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Technology Stocks : Advanced Micro Devices - Moderated (AMD)
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To: Elmer Phud who wrote (138169)10/29/2004 8:07:53 PM
From: TimFRead Replies (1) of 275872
 
If you have $2500 per fully processed wafer and 612 gross die per wafer that would give you a manufacturing cost of a little over $4 per gross die. But doesn't gross die include all die including those that don't work or that bin too low? To know the cost per net die you would have to know the yield (counting thoe that bin too low as not yielding a good die). Then you would have to take those good die and package them. I think that would cost more then making them.

I forgot to add test costs, and there is also shipping/ distributiion (pretty low I think but I don't know how much), marketing and general overhead (marketing, R&D, management and administration, fab construction costs ect.)

Maybe it only is $4 manufacturing cost per gross die produced (and maybe $4.50 to $7 per net, but I really don't know Intel's yields so this is just a guess) but I think manufacturing cost per net die is only a fraction of the total cost (including overhead)

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Maybe $15 is reasonable for variable costs (might even be less at least for the smallest dies) but there is the fixed costs of the fab and their are other overhead costs. I have no way of estimating them but I doubt they would be negliable.

Tim
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