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Wouldn't the price be primarily based on capital investment and not so much on the unit itself? After all, it's essentially a print out on a crystal using reeee
by mrtksn 5y ago
Wouldn't the price be primarily based on capital investment and not so much on the unit itself? After all, it's essentially a print out on a crystal using reeeeeally expensive printers. AFAIK Apple's relationship with TSMC is more than a customer relationship.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 5y agoIn a parallel universe where Intel builds and sells this CPU- what's the price? Single chip, die size of 860 square mm, 114 billion transistors, on package memory. It just got me thinking the other day since all of these benchmarks pit it against $500-$1000 CPUs and it doesn't seem to fall in that price range at all. Look at this thing: https://cdn.wccftech.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/2022-03-19_14-00-05-2060x1074.png https://cdn.wccftech.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/2022-03-...
- mrtksn 5y agoThat's the whole package though, together with the RAM and everything. The Actual die is about the size of the thermal paste stain on that picture.