Replies to post #110729 on Intel Corp (INTC)

[DavidA2]

I think that means the watch manufacturer has high margins. For the chip manufacturer, its unrealistic to expect a profit, either way.

Because of its physical size, it won't be able to have anything more than a 5mm2 die chip. A single 300mm2 wafer can yield over 15,000 of them. 100 million devices being sold equals needing ~7000 wafers.

Intel fab has a production capacity of 45,000 wafers per month. That equals seriously low utilization. I bet you Sci-Fi writers never thought of that when they were envisioning such a future.

[chipguy]

This device costs more than your typical low-end laptop at Newegg, Dell or HP.

The majority of that goes to paying to develop a relatively low
volume SoC and write and test the application software that
runs on it. Unit cost of the SoC itself is a few bucks and ARM
only gets a few cents for its licensed core.