The Camera Is the Lidar

Re:The Camera Is the Lidar by patrickg_zill on Sunday September 02, 2018 @07:23PM (#17899242)

The most general answer to your question is Peter Drucker's (famous management guru) observation that every doubling of production of an item (over the lifetime, not yearly) resulted in a cost reduction of 20-30%.

So right now, with very few LIDARs produced, we have a high price, which will start dropping as more are produced.

You might find this interesting: a single transistor used to sell for roughly the equivalent of $8 USD in today's money; today the cheapest ones are 6 Cents USD (price checked today from Mouser.com) in qty 1 pricing...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/devices/h...

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Re:The Camera Is the Lidar by StavrosK on Sunday September 02, 2018 @08:59PM (#17899536)

At quantity 1, though, most of the cost is from the person who has to package it. Qty 100 will give you a much more accurate price.

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Re:The Camera Is the Lidar by TheSpiceIsLife on Monday September 03, 2018 @03:26AM (#17901033)

You can buy 9.6 billion transistors for AU$599 (US$430) in the form of an AMD Threadripper 12 Core 1920X.

That's AU$0.000,000,062,395,833 (US$0.000,000,044,791,667) per transistor;

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