[Hardware] The market of ASICs (One GigaKey / Second?)

Scott Lockwood scottlockwood at hotmail.com
Fri Jul 23 11:47:52 EDT 2004


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> Now for the economic side :)
> *Say* I have one million dollars. *Say* I think there's a market
> for these  little giants. And that I'm getting about 250 (is that
> overestimated? don't  have a clue actually) chips of one wafer, and
> I'm selling them at 100 bucks  a piece (you guys see how you
> interface it to your pc for now). After 40  wafers, I'm break-even.
> After that, it's all going to make me rich before I  turn 20. :)

I'm a little confused, if you're selling them at 100/ea in bulk,
what's the end user paying? More like 200 to 400 ea. Even for cancer,
that's a lot. Remember that most OEM's mark up the hardware...

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