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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

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.

> 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.