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by nereye 6y ago
On the other hand, https://www.efabless.com/ https://www.efabless.com/ offers:
$70K
20 WEEKS
100 SAMPLES
See also: https://theamphour.com/503-fabless-chip-design-with-mohammed-kassem/ https://theamphour.com/503-fabless-chip-design-with-mohammed...
- egsmi 6y agoDon’t get me wrong, I think what those guys are doing is cool, but it’s 130nm, a fairly small die, and it’s not a fully custom ASIC. That’s how they’re getting the cost down to under $100K. “Degree of Customization: Only what is available through configuration of the design template”
- bunnie 6y agoThanks for pointing that out. Yes, the $1mm number I cited in my post is the estimated raw cost of a full mask set for a relatively modern process in the 2Xnm or smaller range. Definitely older processes have much cheaper mask sets -- in part because there are just fewer metal layers, and fewer & cheaper masks required to image the transistors when the wavelength of light used (193nm) is close to the line width of the devices themselves.