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Well, when you put it that way
September 25, 2007
Silicon is cheap…too cheap not to waste. The earliest version of that claim that I can find in the TMWorld archives dates from 2002, and silicon, surely, has only become cheaper since then. The silicon-is-cheap claim is often used, correctly, to justify the addition of DFT and BIST structures within ICs.
But at last week’s Intel Developer Forum, Gordon Moore had quite a different take. Silicon, he said in an interview with Electronic News, “is very expensive real estate. It's about $1 billion an acre.”
Posted by Rick Nelson on September 25, 2007 | Comments (2)
