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Old 11-19-2002, 02:14 AM   #15
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Originally posted by Demosthenes
The current photolithography process used in fabrication is an expensive one. ... The actual creation of the processor is not too expensive, but the creation of the masks are horribly expensive from my understanding. ....
Photo is about 30% of the overall cost of the chip. Masks are no longer used.

It seems like I am always doing many things at once. When I'm on the computer I'm usually checking the forums, writing emails, and video encoding all at the same time. Multitasking will benefit greatly from parallel processing.
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