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The question would be: how expensive is it to pay off the NDA-schenannigans for a mostly-obsolete node at a small, practically defunct fab? It should be a compe
by namibj 7y ago
The question would be: how expensive is it to pay off the NDA-schenannigans for a mostly-obsolete node at a small, practically defunct fab? It should be a competitive advantage at that point.
- paulgerhardt 7y agoWhen I last quoted, about $200k for the Hong Kong guys and 4-5 million for the Minnesota/Florida folks. Hong Kong was a much bigger process node.
- namibj 7y ago4-5 million seems worth to try a kickstarter or so for. If it succeeds, it'll open all this needed info. Kickstarter pledges convert at some ratio into credits that can be used to pay the fab.