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by Aeolus98 2908 days ago
No matter what, you'll need to clear a certain volume floor. Masks are expensive [0] especially for nicer process nodes.

Once you have a mask set and fab time, it's off to the races. IMO $1M really isn't bad for a simple chip run.

[0] https://anysilicon.com/semiconductor-wafer-mask-costs/