IC Knowledge

Introduction
The IC Knowledge - IC Cost and Pirce Model is designed to enable users to easily estimate manufacturing costs and selling prices for most low power silicon based IC's. The cost and price model runs inside of Excel, the user makes selections from drop-down menus on 2 worksheets covering wafer and product cost. The user must make 8 selections many of which have lookup help available, there are 66 additional selections available on the default sheet that may be overriden if desired to fine tune the model and the process may now be fined tuned to add and subtract individual process steps. All of the defaults are technology specific and in most cases will not need to be changed. There are 8 output sheets that provide a detailed breakout of costs. The model also includes a calculator for stacked die - multi-chip packages.

Who should buy this product
This product is designed to serve the needs of anyone interested in understanding the manufacturing costs of integrated circuits and who also wants detail on the wafer fabrication costs section.

Do you:

Purchase ICs and want to know what it really costs your supplier to make the ICs?
Market ICs and want to know what your competitors products cost?
Market equipment and want to understand how equipment costs impact IC costs?
Manage an IC manufacturing operation and want to benchmark your company against others?
Follow IC companies stocks and want to know what particular products cost them to make?
Develop new products and want to understand the cost impact of process decisions.
Work at a Fabless IC company and want to know what it costs your suppliers to make wafers for you?

If you answered yes to any of the question above, then this product is for you.

What is different for 2012 versus the 2011 model
For the 2012 model all of the underlying model data has been reviewed and in many cases updated. The 2012 model also has new processes, more new processes planned to be added as the year progresses.

How to get more information about the model
We provide several tools to better understand the model before purchasing it.

Email us to get a demo copy of the model.
Applications notes detail the processes and packages supported, there are also several applications notes from the 2001 and 2002 models that although the model has changed and they don't specifically apply are still useful in a general sense. Application notes may be down loaded from the support page.
Process and package type lists.

If none of these tools answers your questions, please feel free to E-mail us at info@icknowledge.com

Revision history
The following is the revision history for the 2012 IC Cost Model:

Revision 1200 - added Samsung 27nm NAND Flash process and estimated die sizes. Added Intel 32nm die sizes. Updated Samsung 24nm Flash and DRAM processes. Added Samsung 19nm Flash process. Added TSMC 55nm - 6 Cu with Al bond pads and TSMC 90nm - 6 Cu with Al bonds pads and embedded Flash processes. Updated DL and IDL rates. Updated electric and natural gas rates.

Cost and how to buy

All prices include twelve months of updates with phone and email support.

1st copy price - $2,050
2nd or 3rd copy price - $1,367
4th copy - $1,093
Enterprise license - $6,970

You can order on-line or we accept purchase orders with 30 day terms from most companies.

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