5 Nov
2010
5 Nov
'10
9:51 a.m.
Patrick Finnegan wrote:
A few years ago, a scrapper would give me just over $6
per PPro in qty
1, so either he was an idiot (less likely), or there's something to
this.
I can think of a few other possible reasons that have nothing to do with
gold content. The most obvious is simply that the resale value of a
Pentium Pro was well over $6.
Don't forget to include the bond-out wires, the
fact that there's two
pieces of silicon that need to be interconnected, and the gold plating
on pins.
I don't think those add up to more than a small fraction of my
estimate
of the amount of gold on the kovar lid, but that is why I allowed for
being off by an order of magnitude in my estimate, and yet the amount of
gold even with that fudge factor is far less than the wild claims being
made.
Eric