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by Retric 4374 days ago
300mm^2 * 5mm = 1.5 milliliters

24k Gold is 42$/gram, 1 gram is 0.052 milliliters.

So, 42 / .052 * 1.5 = 1,211$.

Note: The important parts are not 5mm thick etc, but gold is rather expensive by volume.

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Sorry, by "these quantities" I meant "at computer-chip quantities" in general; gold we pretty much use by area, and not much of that, either. The numbers I gave were purposely quite generous for volume. After all, I did say they were probably 3 or 4 orders of magnitude too generous. Per reitzensteinm's post, looks like you can recover another 1.5 or so out of my chip-height estimate, too.