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As someone who dabbles in electronics, it was eye-opening to go to DigiKey and PCBWay and price up a modern x86 motherboard. Obviously DigiKey doesn't have the
by magicalhippo 3y ago
As someone who dabbles in electronics, it was eye-opening to go to DigiKey and PCBWay and price up a modern x86 motherboard.
Obviously DigiKey doesn't have the chipset ICs, but at quantities of 100 just the connectors, VRMs, passives and the big 8-layer PCB to house it was so much higher.
Like I knew it would be higher, but this exercise really put industrialized manufacturing and economy of scale into perspective.