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The cubietruck for example should be sold on 90USD (including gain) and I do not think the producers have made ​​millions of pieces (without knowing if they will sell them first).
I do not have exact figures but I suppose they did only 5-10,000 board.

Certainly uses Chinese's soc and the layout is more standard but I do not think offer much less complexity.
If we remove the soc and the modem the rest of the GTA board seems to still cost about 290E for 10,000 pieces (I assumed that your modem and soc costs only 90E or 100E for 10.000 units which seems realistic if for a piece costs 150E as stated).
Can it be so expensive and there is not a way to reduce costs?
What are others doing to have the board (without soc) that costs only 15-40E despite 2GB ram, ethernet, hdmi, wifi, bt, ... etc?

I'm not saying you are lying on prices, but just wondering if there are ways to reduce costs (of course using high/higher production volumes), contact type large producers or other.

Finally my 200-250E for 30,000-50,000 pieces do not seem to me a great deal away from your 390E for 10,000 pieces (but with OMAP4 I think).

Anyway, I repeat again that I was disputing the claim of someone who said that it took millions or tens of millions of pieces for prices around a certain amount of money (which I think is one of the survey)

Last edited by Fabry; 2013-09-27 at 21:52. Reason: little better english
 

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