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An interesting info about the PS3 costs

Nightbringer

Don´t hit me for my bad english plase
I have read recently the Hennessy and Patterson book named "Computer Architecture: a quantitative approach"and I observed a good table about the CPU costs and its relations with the size,in special a processor size:

Processor1

Area: 2,25cm^2
Side: 1,53cm
Dies per Waffer (150mm waffer): 53
Productivity of the waffer: 8,52%
Cost of the die: 121,80$
Cost of the die test: 5,87$
Cost of the package: 52,25$
Final cost: 199$

In the book we don´t have an example of a 334-335mm2 chip but the 306mm2 chip goes to the 388,62$ and the 400mm2 chip goes to the 811,52$

Do you need to remember that:

1. The waffers used in the table are 150mm waffers and Sony will use 300mm waffers

2. Emotion Engine first commercial version was a 240mm2 processor.
 

bjork

Member
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maxmars

Member
Yeah but you have to take into account that Sony is going to produce that in its secret German labs.. Hence they make use of luftwaffers which sport MUCH better yeldings.
 
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