Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[jhalada]

chipguy,

Let's go with your number for the sake of argument. Intel
has been selling the 8870 chipset for about 14 quarters
now, give or take. That is $5.6m total. You really think
three 250 nm or 180 nm logic process masksets cost
over $5m?

If it took them 10 tries to get it right, maybe.

BTW, mask sets are only a small fraction of the cost of designing, manufacturing and supporting a chipset.

Joe