chipguy,
Do you design full custom integrated circuits for a living?
Well, don't quit that day job.
Have you done product engineering and yield analysis? What about devising standard cost models for ICs? If not you don't have the slightest clue about most of the factors whose consideration went into my comment.
Don't pound that chest so hard. You may injure yourself. I don't want to be responsible for that.
BTW, you started with 3 datapoints: pricing of 3 chips, of a boutique server chip and you went on a tangent from there, presumably applying logic of pricing of volume product.
I used the same "logic" and concluded that it is a heroic struggle to yield a single good Itanium die.
Joe
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