DeVry is now selling "advanced" degrees in semiconductor manufacturing? I thought only ITT Tech was doing that?
And I do not mean that to be insulting Nebulus but you have said you have an advanced degree in semiconductor manufacturing but one post later you cite a blog entry by A SOFTWARE developer with an undergrad degree and wrote that article based on blog entries of what various people "said" their costs were.
Given your education, I would think you would be more expert in costing than the person you cited. You also cite costs of 130 and 110. Slaughter is claiming 45 and 28. He is also "claiming" to have designed the masks months ago yet he JUST signed an NDA in San Jose a few weeks ago. You should know that this would seem like BS, given after signing the NDA, the next stage would be VETTING by their legal department that will look to ensure he has a legitimate business plan and funds available.
How do you think the VETTING process would go? These are not fly by night companies. Saying "I will get funding as soon as I illegally sell some shares in my company on a virtual exchange" is probably not the answer they want to hear.
But you should know all this since you work in the semi conductor industry right? And you would know that he is months away from getting to the design process if he has not EVEN BEEN VETTED TO OPEN AN ACCOUNT YET. So, knowing all this (as a semiconductor expert), you must be as SKEPTICAL as I am that this is nothing more than a pump and dump with someone getting kids excited about valuing a company that has $9,000 worth of avalons coming at $2-10 Million.