The Cost of Processing Silicium

The cost to create a square centimeter of silicon in 1970 is about the same as the cost to create one today. In 1103 that 1K dynamic RAM Intel was producing would sell for three or four dollars. Today you can make a microprocessor, microcontroller with maybe a hundred or several hundred billion transistor to sell for exactly the same amount. There's roughly a thousand fold increase in the cost of the manufacturing plant. It translates to absolutely anti-inflationary static cost.