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Intel chip costs.. $40?


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I guess it only costs Intel $40 in raw materials to make the $600 chips that you and I buy retail..

  Though Pentium 4s can sell for up to $637, Intel's average cost for making a chip comes to $40, according to a report from analysts In-Stat.

The report doesn't consider expenses related to design or marketing, or the fact that high-end chips can sell for more because fewer off the production line can actually run at top speed, but it does shed light on how Intel has managed to maintain healthy margins in an era of price declines. The cost has been steady at about $40 since 2003, according to In-Stat.

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it does not reflect costs of design and marketing. doh! design is the most expensive part of the process. materials are nada. some silicates, a smidge of precious metals. the 40 bucks sounds a bit too low for the elaborate fab processes needed though. wonder what other costs were left out. power? staff? the factory itself?

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The first chip that is made always cost more, like around 4-5 million $$$$ so they have to charge alot so they can make there money back + pay there employees + make a profit. AMD does the same thing the reason there chips don't cost as much is because they, cost about 1/2 of what a Pentium 4 costs to make 1 chip. The main reason is amd uses alot of aluminum in their products Ware as Intel uses more expensive copper, and AMD uses copper wires Ware as Intel uses gold wire.

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it does not reflect costs of design and marketing. doh! design is the most expensive part of the process. materials are nada. some silicates, a smidge of precious metals. the 40 bucks sounds a bit too low for the elaborate fab processes needed though. wonder what other costs were left out. power? staff? the factory itself?

I agree. What exactly did they leave out?  I'd love to be able to build my own computer with a $40 CPU.

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Here's another article based on the in-stat report: http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/hardware/story/0,10801,104605,00.html

Went to instats site.  I'm not going to pay $2995 for the full report....... Talk about profit  :whaa:

Excerpted from:  http://www.in-stat.com/catalog/Scatalogue.asp?id=86#IN0501748IN

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Intel Manufacturing Capacity and Die Cost

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Report Number: IN0501748IN

Publication Date: August 2005

Number of Pages: 44

Report Price: $2,995 U.S. Dollars

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In semiconductor manufacturing, interest in Intel

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