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Curated by Farid Mheir
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WHY IT MATTERS: my master and first jobs where building ASICs in the 1980s-1990s. So articles like these resonate as they show with numbers the very high cost of creating your own silicon. And if I understand it, 2B$ is the cost of silicon *production*, not the cost of building the foundry - which I assume is an order of magnitude or more expensive. But when companies like Apple sell billions of phones or Tesla sells millions of cars, the economics of build-vs-buy can tip in the favor buidling. Beware: the article is back of the envelope / educated guesses. Nevertheless fascinating!