On 5/4/2012 1:16, Le_Forgeron wrote:
> It means that if you produced only one item at the end, that item costed
> 5 years of salary of many peoples, at least.

Cars and CPUs are both in the same range: About half the total end-user cost 
over the lifetime of the design goes into the design, and half into the 
manufacturing and distributing the rest.

Which is to say, when that new x64 CPU comes out, the first one costs half 
of all the money they'll ever collect in selling them, and all the others 
combined cost the other half.

That's why you see things like ARM cores, PCI boards, built-in devices 
connected via USB, and so on. It tremendously reduces the cost of production.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "Oh no! We're out of code juice!"
   "Don't panic. There's beans and filters
    in the cabinet."

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