tape out

“The ideal, which companies tend to hit about 50% of the time is that your first tape out costs like thirty million dollars your first... The ideal is that your first tape out is actually, is your production thing. So you do a tape out, you make maybe a thousan…”

“What we see is time from, like, tape out to first chip, to chips back. Again, depends on node, but it's ballpark four or five months.”

“In good cases and in many cases, you can redo just the metal layers, which costs you only like a 100,000 dollars. As opposed to the- Pay the thirty million dollars again. But in bad cases, like, if you've made something serious and you can't fix that at the me…”