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To: kash johal who wrote (85861)1/7/2000 4:45:00 PM
From: Elmer  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 1572706
 
Re: "And your $16 for Celeron die size are way too high."

Not if it includes depreciation.

EP



To: kash johal who wrote (85861)1/7/2000 5:15:00 PM
From: Saturn V  Respond to of 1572706
 
Ref- <$7 would be about right for a CPGA and its assy.
BGA's will lower that to $3-3.50 or so.
And your $16 for Celeron die size are way too high >

Kash, you may be right on the above points, since the numbers I got are more than a year old from a source I cannot name.

Ref AMD's package cost, I believe that to be the case because of the ceramic package used for flip chip saaembly.

Regards



To: kash johal who wrote (85861)1/7/2000 6:19:00 PM
From: Petz  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1572706
 
kash, as I remember the wacky $20 estimate for packaging a K6 came from an SI member named Patient Engineer a couple years ago. He assumed there were a lot of chips that failed test after packaging and threw the entire production cost of those chips onto the ones that DID pass.

As I remember, the actual variable cost for a K6 package was $5 by his estimate.

Petz


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