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> For a 10nm chip, it takes $120 million for the design cost, plus 60% for the embedded software. I don't understand: 60% of what? What embedded software?
by abecedarius 11y ago
> For a 10nm chip, it takes $120 million for the design cost, plus 60% for the embedded software.
I don't understand: 60% of what? What embedded software?
- adapteva 11y agoPut simply "stuff". Take a look at Fred Brooks, mythical man month if you haven't ready it already. The projects that cost $250M will have over 1,000 engineers involved. Running a tightly coupled engineering project of that size is impossible in my opinion, thus the cost. Figure that 50% of the budget goes to communication overhead, 25% to management overhead, and you are left with 25% of true engineering costs.