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I lost the thread of his argument when he brought up the shipping expense: > I pay anywhere from US $60 to US $200 to ship one dollar chips that people everywh

I lost the thread of his argument when he brought up the shipping expense: > I pay anywhere from US $60 to US $200 to ship one dollar chips that people everywhere else get free shipping on then follows with: > the difference between a ten cent part and a one dollar part is not a rounding error and it is not a detail you get to wave past on the way to the interesting discussion about encodings. When shipping is so expensive, doesn't the difference between $1 and $.10 unit cost become less relevant?

Johanx64 2mo ago
Difference between $1 and $.10 is always irrelevant unless you're mass manufacturing, which I presume you aren't on a remote island. Plus, arm cortex-m0+ cores aren't $1, they are also available in $.15-$.30 range. Westeners like to buy the $.10 CH32V003 as an exercise in minimalism, after all its refreshing to work in an environment with very limited resources. For the same reason people enjoy 1KB demoscene categories. There's no economics behind it. Authors argument almost entirely leans on Aliexpress shipping things for "free" to his island. It also has arm cores, but I suppose RISC-V MCUs have smaller odds of being fakes/clones.
alightsoul 2mo ago
The difference is shipping from the us to shipping from china. From the us you pay 200 dollars for a 1 dollar arm processor due to shipping. From china you pay 4 dollars in shipping for a 10 cent processor. Apparently buying arm processors in china is not reliable and of course you wouldn't buy a RISC v processor in the us due to shipping costs when shipping from china is 50 times cheaper.