meh. i think the unit count is down to about a thousand. also strongly dependent on what node size you use. 180nm and 350nm are pretty cheap these days. but you

meh. i think the unit count is down to about a thousand. also strongly dependent on what node size you use. 180nm and 350nm are pretty cheap these days. but you're probably only off by an order of magnitude if you're talking about 28nm (which is what the SiFive HiFive Unleashed chip uses.) but... your point was probably more along the lines of "getting custom silicon is still going to need a market of greater than several thousand," and that's probably always going to be true.