[Cialug] AMD's Spin Off

Daniel A. Ramaley daniel.ramaley at drake.edu
Thu Oct 9 10:54:10 CDT 2008


On Thursday October 9 2008 10:15, David Champion wrote:
>Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:
>> manufacturing is quite expensive, but design is not so much.
>
>I don't know if you can say chip design isn't expensive...

I didn't. Of course design for something like a chip is very expensive. 
But not as expensive as manufacturing. What does a new chip fab plant 
cost these days? Isn't it over $1 billion?

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