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If a mask set is 50 million and you only need ten chips, these guys would only need to come in under 5 million per chip to win on cost.
by ip26 3y ago
If a mask set is 50 million and you only need ten chips, these guys would only need to come in under 5 million per chip to win on cost.
- 15155 3y agoIf you only need 10 chips, you may just be able to use 50 or even 500 FPGAs. 500 VU19P will cost less than 5 million.
- vasco 3y agoNot if you want to put it somewhere small like a satellite or bunch of other things.
- xw3098 3y agohttps://roboticsandautomationnews.com/2020/06/09/xilinx-launches-industrys-first-20-nanometer-space-grade-fpga-chip/32897/ https://roboticsandautomationnews.com/2020/06/09/xilinx-laun... Xilinx launches ‘industry’s first’ 20 nanometer space-grade FPGA chip
- rwmj 3y agoThere's a large number of applications which cannot be done in an FPGA, for instance any complex GHz-clocked digital circuit, or many analog circuits.
- xw3098 3y agoWe don’t know what node they’re targeting so this is all speculation but if it’s anything below say 22nm then that’s finFET, and there’s nothing low cost about finFET at prototype volumes. If it’s not finFET then a non production mask set is much less than $50 million in 2023. Also, keep in mind maskless lithography has been used commercially for roughly ten years now. And it’s been in Universities for significantly longer.