作者weiter5494@2013-12-06, 03:59 PM #43[/QUOTE

Moore's Law isn't making chips cheaper anymore. Keeping Moore's Law going now requires complicated manufacturing techniques that are so expensive they cancel out the cost savings that should come with each new generation. The cost curves are kind of getting flat. Instead of getting more speed, less power consumption and lower cost with each generation, chip makers now have to choose two out of three. At levels like 14 nanometers process node, chip makers need more than traditional manufacturing techniques to achieve the high density. The more dense chips get, the more expensive it will be to make them.
- Henry Samueli, co-founder, chairman and CTO of Broadcom
[QUOTE=weiter5494@2013-12-29, 12:08 PM #71]
歷經90年代跟2009~2011間優於整體IC市場的高速成長，有人認為在先進製程造晶成本走高的趨勢下，兩家PLD大廠後市可期。

I don’t buy Altera’s claim that manufacturing costs to make ASICs will rise more sharply as chips get made at smaller and smaller feature sizes. It is not clear to us why the design costs rise with each more advanced semiconductor node to the extent that Altera claims.
- David Wong of Wells Fargo