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It was never million bucks. There were always businesses offering square millimeter of silicon for few thousands euro on an older technology. Design service mig
by lnsru 4y ago
It was never million bucks. There were always businesses offering square millimeter of silicon for few thousands euro on an older technology. Design service might go into millions if one can’t do it by himself though.
- rzzzt 4y agoFew thousand euros, thousand piece minimum?
- lnsru 4y agoNo, some universities were sponsoring these back in the day. You could really order 2 chips with 6 square millimeters in total. Economically not viable at all, but good enough for final thesis. And the university also provided design tools making things easier.