$0.10 for a gadget like that is huge. I work on the main chip of a gadget that cost thousands of dollars with high margins on the end product, and our customer

$0.10 for a gadget like that is huge. I work on the main chip of a gadget that cost thousands of dollars with high margins on the end product, and our customers don’t like it one bit when we require an additional external component that increase the BOM cost by $0.5. There’s a person somewhere in the supply chain who’s job it is to question the cost and necessity of everything. If you don’t have that, engineers get frivolous quickly. (It reminds me of the case, many years ago, where they asked me if we could swap a crypto chip with dedicated keys by a cheaper generic version that cost 1 cent less.)