That's one hell of a healthy profit margin there O.o
The SiTime MEMS oscillator is about 100€ for one single chip, the mosaic-T GPS receiver is about 400€. Add 50€ for the rest (particularly the power input section looks complicated) and 50€ for handling, probably 600€ in hardware cost... sold for 2.500€.
The real money I think went into certification and R&D for a low-volume product - even though most of the hard work is done by the two ICs, getting everything orchestrated (including the PCB itself) to perform to that level of accuracy is one hell of a workload.
Yep, for hardware sold in low volumes, what looks like a healthy or even abusive profit margin turns out to be barely adequate to justify getting out of bed in the morning.
There are so many artificial bureaucratic barriers to entry these days, and it's not getting better.
That's one hell of a healthy profit margin there O.o
The SiTime MEMS oscillator is about 100€ for one single chip, the mosaic-T GPS receiver is about 400€. Add 50€ for the rest (particularly the power input section looks complicated) and 50€ for handling, probably 600€ in hardware cost... sold for 2.500€.
The real money I think went into certification and R&D for a low-volume product - even though most of the hard work is done by the two ICs, getting everything orchestrated (including the PCB itself) to perform to that level of accuracy is one hell of a workload.