• MyNamesNotRobert@lemmynsfw.com
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    7 months ago

    Open source fpgas cost up to $10 per chip, $17 if you want the big chungus 256 pin one with lots of extra memory and logic blocks. You can get pcb printing services for like $7 per board but I think I paid less than that last time I built something.

    I’m pretty sure custom made ASICs cost orders of magnitude more than that.

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      7 months ago

      For one, sure, but I’m guessing prices come down quite a bit once we’re talking larger numbers, like hundreds of thousands.

      But those are really good prices though.