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Re:Apple Preps Next Mac Chips with Aim to Outclass Highest-E... by Mauricebranagh on Monday December 07, 2020 @10:26AM (#25332998)
All the Rnd Apple put into to make the new CPU's has to be amortised
Re:Apple Preps Next Mac Chips with Aim to Outclass Highest-E... by lizknope on Monday December 07, 2020 @10:45AM (#25333237)
Exactly. A chip design team as large as Apple's costs hundreds of millions of dollars in salaries alone. Mask costs in 5nm are about $30 million. EDA physical design tools have list prices of over $1 million per license.