Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Re:Smart Box / Dumb Box (OT)

ballendo@... wrote:

> Jon wrote:
> >Chips don't work the way the data sheet says the do, and you
> >have to call the guy who DESIGNED the chip, or the guy who built the
> >test rig that tests them at the factory, to get the real story.
>
> Boy, ain't this the truth... It's even worse if they don't like
> the 'real story' and keep peddling the 'suppos-ed story'...
>
> Sometimes Ithink this is how they pay for their development costs.

No, the development costs are astronomical! It costs somewhere in
the neighborhood of $250,000 to design a single, relatively small
chip, and these numbers may still not include all the support costs
hidden in the departments that do this stuff. You'll never make any
money selling 5 chips to a bunch of experimenters and designers.
Only in those 10,000 and 100,000 piece orders do you really make the
money that counts.

Jon