| ??? 01/11/07 17:07 Read: times  | 
#130672 - More on tooling costs Responding to: ???'s previous message  | 
The book molds for chips tend to run about $100K each. We've looked into recreating molds for obsolete packages (anyone remember the BQFP?), and it just isn't economical for less than 1M parts.   | 
| Topic | Author | Date | 
| Making it harder to fake chips | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| the classical robber/policeman game | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Molded Logos | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| I doubt a molded logo is a good protection... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Sale of test rejects | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Tooling costs | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| More on tooling costs | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Yes but | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
   a real tester would solve the problem        | 01/01/70 00:00 | 



