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Yeah, that $238/chip figure can't possibly be right. Apple's putting this chip in a $700 phone with at least a 50% margin. They're not blowing more than half th
by twoodfin 6y ago
Yeah, that $238/chip figure can't possibly be right. Apple's putting this chip in a $700 phone with at least a 50% margin. They're not blowing more than half the BoM on the SoC.
- gruez 6y agoThe $238/chip figure probably isn't for the A14 specifically, considering that it's a chart from an unrelated report[1] >The model is based on an imaginary 5nm chip the size of Nvidia's P100 GPU (610 mm2, 90.7 billion transistors at 148.2 MTr/mm2). [1] https://cset.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/AI-Chips%E2%80%94What-They-Are-and-Why-They-Matter.pdf#page=45 https://cset.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/AI-Chips%E2%8...
- throwaway4good 6y agoIn 2004 the cost pr. chip was $2,433 which doesn't make sense either. Is there a way to read the original report that this post was based upon?