[ExI] , question for Max or anyone

Adrian Tymes atymes at gmail.com
Sun Sep 5 19:36:07 UTC 2021


On Sun, Sep 5, 2021 at 10:45 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *…*> *On Behalf Of *Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] , question for Max or anyone
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> On Sun, Sep 5, 2021 at 9:25 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> Adrian you perhaps know the order of magnitude price delta between a
> consumer device and a device which is med-qualified.  Your mother is a
> doctor as I recall.  She may know how much anything allowed in a hospital
> must meet reliability standards that have been set to absurd levels.
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> >…Yes.  I also know how much Moore's Law has driven down prices of
> electronics, countering this increase, to the point that some med-qualified
> electronics are practically consumer-budget…
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> Adrian, Moore’s law only applies to the cost of the electronic device, not
> to the cost of getting any device qualified for use as a medical
> instrument.  The cost of med-qualification has risen dramatically and
> continues to rise, as the cost of the device drops to an insignificant
> fraction of the price tag.
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Perhaps it is not entirely Moore's Law.  Better amortization - the ability
to distribute such one-off costs among more units - has also lowered the
per-unit costs.  (This is one of the economic advantages of a larger
population.)
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