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znpy06/17/20251 replyview on HN

i mean, can you imagine how many chips are built?

nowadays there's at least a chip in most physical objects...


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IsTom06/17/2025

And the part that is substrate, not the packaging is tiny and thin. It's much less than a gram of material in CPUs and even less in smaller chips. That's not going to be a significant part of final price. Also remember that silicon currently used is not some regular sand, but grown monocrystals that are a bit pricier.