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[–] 14 points 14 hours ago (1 child)

Because we live in bizarro world where a resistor is more expensive than a microcontroller, by a whole 0.0001¢ so 10,000 units they save a whole dollar. You can't argue with prophet savings like that.

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    It's like a religious calling to all C-suite executives. Number have to go up, a flatline is bad. So costs are cut even to the detriment of the product, even though the cost savings are negligible and the detriment to the product significant.

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