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Here is something which we hear repeated often -

It costs 50-60M to fund a fabless semiconductor startup which means that there are very few opportunities to fund a semi startup.

I am sure the numbers have  some element of truth to them.  I asked the following question internally of my team -

Let’s say all the IP blocks were ready to go, and high quality verification IP were available for all interfaces, how much would it cost to build a fully-verified design for a chip with moderate complexity – ARM core, multiport DDR controller, PCIe controller, and mutiple channels of flash controller?