8 Oct
1998
8 Oct
'98
10:33 p.m.
Here's the information about pricing on the F14 CADC directly from Ray
Holt.
To my knowledge the first set of chips were included
into the
development price, however, as I remember the remainder of the initial
contract had a price tag of $250-$350 per chip. The ROM's were
probably a little less that that. In follow-on production (qty's of
1000+) AMI had estimated chip prices to be under $100. I noticed I had
put $65 in my paper.
And on some of the applications the AMI 7200 & 7300 microprocessors made
their way into:
The 7200 and 7300 were used, for sure, in very high
scientific
calculators and as i/o controllers for some mini's, however, I left AMI
right after the development so I did not get into who any follow-on
customers were.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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