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Because the margin per chip is low and supporting more customers cost more. They sell these parts for couple of bucks/part at volume, although it costs 20-30 million NRE. With the fixed production costs added, they have tens of cents per part margin. At that point less than 1M part customer becomes irrelevant.


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