AMD on it’s current hot steak has gotten its gross profit margins to 43%, which would make the cost to manufacture a $300 part around $171.
Two and a half times higher cost to build a slower, more power hungry CPU is not actually very similar.
Two and a half times higher cost to build a slower, more power hungry CPU is not actually very similar.
You can argue that this particular Ryzen has a higher gross margin, say 50%, and lower ASP than $300, but that only gets your cost down to what, $140? And with RAM costing extra.