Say good bye to Democracy, then. Once you let the goverment raise the children, how do you expect them to think and vote independently? In one generation, you'll lose all true freedom and independence.
One of the most expensive parts of a new chip design is having a set of masks made. I've heard these can cost millions of dollars on a typical VLSI design, but let's be conservative and say you can get a simple set for $50000. If you make 1000 chips, your cost per chip is $50 in masks alone. This doesn't even include the cost of silicon, fab fees, and so forth.
If you want to go cheap, several companies make low-cost microcontrollers. A quick hop over to http://www.ti.com/msp430 shows that you can get a 16MHz, 16-bit microcontroller with 128b RAM, 1K flash, analog comparator, slope AD converter, watchdog timer, 16 bit timer with 3CCR's, 16 IO pins, and brownout reset for only 90 cents each. I don't know what you want to do, but I bet you could do it with a chip like that. Plus, TI isn't the only company making stuff like this. If you shop around a little, you can probably find something for as little as 50 cents.
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Say good bye to Democracy, then. Once you let the goverment raise the children, how do you expect them to think and vote independently? In one generation, you'll lose all true freedom and independence.
One of the most expensive parts of a new chip design is having a set of masks made. I've heard these can cost millions of dollars on a typical VLSI design, but let's be conservative and say you can get a simple set for $50000. If you make 1000 chips, your cost per chip is $50 in masks alone. This doesn't even include the cost of silicon, fab fees, and so forth.
If you want to go cheap, several companies make low-cost microcontrollers. A quick hop over to http://www.ti.com/msp430 shows that you can get a 16MHz, 16-bit microcontroller with 128b RAM, 1K flash, analog comparator, slope AD converter, watchdog timer, 16 bit timer with 3CCR's, 16 IO pins, and brownout reset for only 90 cents each. I don't know what you want to do, but I bet you could do it with a chip like that. Plus, TI isn't the only company making stuff like this. If you shop around a little, you can probably find something for as little as 50 cents.