And it ain't cheap — the basic setup with 8GB of storage and a low-wattage AMD processor costs you $849.
And no gadget comes free: a third-eye retroscope processor costs about $20,000 and the disposable catheter another $350 [ 51, 63].
Inktomi's Ultra 2s, each containing two processors, cost only $28,000 apiece.
In the past, many researchers have focused on designing tiny sensors, limited power consumption processors, cost-effective and energy-efficient protocols to minimise energy consumption and prolong network lifetime.
Computers are counter-example (outlier) because of great economies and improvements in products that had the original low speed processors costing about $2000 to $3000 dollars in the early 1980s and the hard drives were very small, but very expensive -- and they actually came down in price with vastly improved speed and capacity.
And because that is the highest component of a processor's cost the subcontractors essentially are asked to do that work for a lower price than presumably the packer is able to fund for those stages.
Soft error analysis is very significant for a good tradeoff between processor design cost (e.g. area and power) and reliability.
The jury, which consists of tech journalists and professionals from the photo industry, was apparently most impressed by the HD EOS 5D Mark II's CMOS sensor, the image processor, its cost performance and superior usability.
It has the advantages of fast acquisition and high synchronization precision, but a shortcoming that the receiver must have a significant chip area, controllable clock (such as voltage-controlled oscillator, VCO), or a high-rate sampler and signal processor, which cost more than 15% system power.
To overcome this handicap, AMD would have to price its processors below cost, and perhaps even pay its customers.
