17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
At 6:41 am -0500 11/26/96, Paul Foley wrote:
There's a Moore's second law?
"When the fabs cost $10 billion to build, all bets are off." ;-) That's expected to happen in 10 years or so. Fab prices have been going up by an order of magnitude every N years since the beginning of semiconductors. Forbes did an article on this earlier this year, I think. Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com) e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "The cost of anything is the foregone alternative" -- Walter Johnson The e$ Home Page: http://www.vmeng.com/rah/