> Forget about CPUs, what amazes me is that they can make a profit selling
> 74HC00's at $.20 each.  My company couldn't make a profit selling small
> rocks at $.20 each!
>
> Sherpa Doug

Try to get into volume sales. Like construction work ;-). Any idea how
many small rocks at $0.20 each in 1 cubic meter of laid concrete ?

Afaik there are no LSI chips made anywhere in advanced (aka expensive, aka
taxed to death) industrialized countries. All the MSI/LSI and discrete
fabs (and not only) are in 3rd (ok, 2nd) world places where fab prices are
far under $100 per wafer. It's the same trick as with all the things they
don't make anymore in 'post industrial' places. You know what I mean. ;-(.

Peter

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