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> no. what i meant was that you might have been
> looking at a unit price of the ps3 cpu. when you
> mass machine something you dont have to worry
> about machine setup costs anymore (which takes
> majority of the time) therefore the unit price
> drops dramatically. anyway about the problem you
> mention im sure a corporation as big as sony
> wouldve forseen that. i think they'll be alright
>
No, the machine costs arent included. This is cost per cpu, based on yields per wafer of cpus. Apparently they can get 65 successful Cell cpus from every wafer - "each wafer run through the fab costs $9-10K, and IBM gets about 65 good chips per wafer" - simple maths = $150 give or take a bit. Toss in $25-30 for the packaging, and you are at a non-trivial number for a console. Assuming $175 for a 'solder to the board' working Cell, and you are at about half the cost of the console with just the CPU.
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The figures dont include cost of building the fab plant. As I said, it will go down, but its not good atm.
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