Wikipedia provides this rough estimate of feature size - year table: 10 µm – 1971 6 µm – 1974 3 µm – 1977 1.5 µm – 1982 1 µm – 1985 800 nm – 1989 600 nm – 1994 350 nm – 1995
What about only a 100K USD?
[1] capital costs only. Not labor.
Wikipedia provides this rough estimate of feature size - year table: 10 µm – 1971 6 µm – 1974 3 µm – 1977 1.5 µm – 1982 1 µm – 1985 800 nm – 1989 600 nm – 1994 350 nm – 1995
What about only a 100K USD?
[1] capital costs only. Not labor.
So, that's one data point.
You couldn't even buy the cleanroom building for $1m
Edit: Page 64 of the pdf https://dokumente.unibw.de/pub/bscw.cgi/d9262701/01_History.... suggests in 1980 the total investment cost of a fab was $100million. I would expect that same tech could be replicated a lot cheaper today. A 100x improvement doesn't seem outrageous.
I'm no expert, but a 100x savings seems pretty outrageous to me and 300x even more so.