socrates@Corona.ITD.MsState.EDU (Robert Miller) (02/15/91)
----- Begin Included Message ----- From info-vlsi-request@Think.COM Thu Feb 14 05:58:06 1991 Received: from mail.think.com by Corona.ITD.MsState.Edu (4.0/5.0s); id AA22397; Thu, 14 Feb 91 05:58:03 CST From: mpurtell@iastate.edu (Purtell Michael J) Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA Subject: Volume chip costs. Message-Id: <1991Feb14.103845.20434@news.iastate.edu> Newsgroups: comp.lsi Sender: info-vlsi-request@Think.COM To: info-vlsi@Think.COM Status: R I was curious what it would cost, approximately, to have 100 or 500 MOSIS tiny chips (40 pin ceramic package) manufactured. This would be assuming that a few chips had already been run so that the masks had alread been made. Thanks! -- Michael Purtell ---- mpurtell@iastate.edu Iowa State University ---- Birthplace of the first electronic digital computer "In a hundread years, we'll all be dead." -- The January Man "slow is real" ----- End Included Message ----- Ceramic packaging will be much more expensive than the plastic, with an estimate of $4-$5 a chip plus around $1000-$1500 total for assembly. Now this is just a rough estimate from our experience, but if you could go plastic, it would reduce the per-chip package cost to around $2-$3 .