I started writing a reply in disagreement, lamenting on the long-gone the pre-COVID times when we were buying sub-$10 Max10 devices, and bitching how Intel killed Altera, letting Xilinx to jack-up the prices.

Boy, am I happy I decided to do some googling before pressing send…

Although Xilinx indeed has jacked up the prices, the sub-$10 Altera category is still alive and well.

Furthermore, both Lattice and Renesas have devices in sub-$5 category.

For super cheap programmable logic, Renesas has a sub-$1 simple programmable logic devices.

So much options out there…