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From: mpurtell@iastate.edu (Purtell Michael J)
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Subject: Volume chip costs.
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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!


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                   Michael Purtell ---- mpurtell@iastate.edu
Iowa State University ---- Birthplace of the first electronic digital computer
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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 .