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> which is obvious when you see the 4-digit prices of the most sophisticated FPGAs.

6-digit at the high end.

https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/amd/XCVU29P-3FSGA...

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I mean, it's not like people producing products with those parts actually pay that for production though, except for some really tiny volume ones (such as some defence projects).

Companies make products based around FPGAs and can sell the whole thing for less than you could buy just the single FPGA part for on a place like Digi-key. It's just part of the FPGA companies' business models. In volume the price will be far smaller.

At that end of the market they cost an astronomical amount of money, no matter what.

The $140,000 device doesn’t become a $400 device in any volume; it might become a $90,000 device.

these prices are like airplanes: no one with volume pays list prices, it's something else. moreover, this FPGA is very peculiar. it's used to simulate ASIC during validation, so it's not really the typical FPGA that gets used in a project

> The $140,000 device doesn’t become a $400 device in any volume; it might become a $90,000 device.

VU13Ps are quoted $300/ea at tray quantities from Xilinx, yet are $89k on DigiKey with no price breaks.

No, I expect you could get it under $20K with not that much volume and potentially in the single digit thousands in high volume. The FPGA vendors' business models are weird, the price breaks are unlike what we see with most other parts.

Nobody has ever paid this price.

These chips are <$3000 new.

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