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Chips don't really work like that. 99% of the cost is in R&D and factory development then the cost per chip is pretty low, you just have to average in the R&D c
by AgloeDreams 6y ago
Chips don't really work like that. 99% of the cost is in R&D and factory development then the cost per chip is pretty low, you just have to average in the R&D cost right? Apple sells ~ 200M units every year and prior developments get rolled into low cost products. Each new process probably leads Apple to make at least 500M devices. At scale you can spend 10s of billions on R&D and be spending less than $15-25 per chip.