1. Suppose you are a technical director at a video processor company. For the ne

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1. Suppose you are a technical director at a video processor company. For the next generation product, you find a choice to make between two fabrication processes. Following table summarizes the main differences between the processes. Due to the current recession, your marketing department reports that expected sale of this product is somewhere between 100,000 to 500.000 pieces. Which process would you choose based on cost considerations? Process Cost of Mask Set Die Size Wafer Size Yield Cost of Wafer Test Cost Packaging Cost Final Test Yield 65nm CMOS $3,000,000 1.5cm 12" 78% $2,000 90nm CMOS $800,000 2cm 8" 85% $1,200 $0.68/die $0.40/chi 95% Table 1 Cost related parameters of two process candidates.

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I would choose the second fabrication process.Simply because it is less costly than the first process.More importantly it has more yeild,and also since it's recession time ,we need to maximise our profit by minimising our expenditure.

So second process is more suitable.

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