Figure 1. IC Cost Trends.

In figure 1, five trends are illustrated The first trend is the cost per one million bits of DRAM memory - green circles, the second is cost per one million instructions per second of Intel processor power - blue squares, the third is the cost per one million transistors for the industry as a whole - orange triangles, the fourth is the cost of one million instructions per second of Texas Instruments DSP power - purple diamonds, and finally the cost of one million Xilinx FPGA gates - redish brown circles.

Figure 1 is taken from the forthcoming IC Knowledge - 2004 IC Economics report.

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