Re:Nasa’s Mars Rover Opportunity Concludes a 15-Year Mission
by sitharus on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @03:47PM
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The costs of employing a team to do the radiation hardening design work, running a non-mainstream fab (I believe these chips were silicon-on-sapphire) and small production runs. There's a lot of overheads amortised on to a very small number of chips.
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Re:Nasa’s Mars Rover Opportunity Concludes a 15-Year Mission
by Rebelgecko on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @08:33PM
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I believe they're fabbed in Virginia, which probably doesn't help costs either