Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Formerly About Applied Materials -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Clarksterh who wrote (30743)	5/31/1999 1:29:00 PM
From: Jack Kunkle	Respond to of 70976

Clark: Here is another good example of what I am talking about: developer.intel.com <Figure 3 shows the other major consequence of following Moore's Law. The reduction in cost per chip element is just offset by the increase in element density, leading to an essentially constant cost per individual chip. However, as a result, overall factory costs increase almost exponentially as we struggle to meet the ever increasing demand for more and larger high-performance chips. In order to meet cost per chip goals, cost per factory has increased to the point where high-volume factories now cost several billion dollars! So being successful in reducing chip costs brings its own share of additional problems. Building, equipping, and maintaining billion dollar factories tax even the most successful companies. This explosion of factory cost has come to be known as Moore's Second Law > Regards, Jack Kunkle