Volume Cyclone V price

[Altera_Forum]

Hello all, 

 For volume quantity what can cost an FPGA that cost 180$ in single unit? Can it reach 20$ target price?  I bought an entire dev-board with that FPGA at that price so it will for sure cost much less..  Thanks

[Altera_Forum]

To reach that level of pricing you would need to have very high volumes and be going direct to altera. 

 It's probably not impossible, but not easy to accomplish without being either a tier 1 customer already, or have several years of high volumne purchases already behind you.  Altera would also probably want to select what package you could buy as well, because that also goes in the cost calculation for them.  I've had customers go to production with FPGA's before for consumer products, and because they went over specific thresholds, the received very good pricing, but they always moved to ASICs for their products rather quickly. Because even at $20, if you can get the cost down to $5 it doesn't take long to make up that $1,000,000 NRE if the design is solid and your volumes are high.  Pete

[Altera_Forum]

Thank you pete, 

And for a small production of 1k quantity what can be a realistic price? Are fpga only for dev-board and large volumes?

[Altera_Forum]

To know the pricing of each Unit, I think you can direct contact Altera sales office or their authorized distributor to get more details

[Altera_Forum]

Hi, 

 Personally i believe 1k quantity might be a bit hard to negotiate for a good price. However, as mentioned, it is best for you to contact the Altera sales person to get negotiate for the optimal quote.

[Altera_Forum]

Thank you to all. In conclusion it is better to buy already done boards for low quantity (<1k but maybe < more k).

[Altera_Forum]

Check out this Cyclone V devkit page https://www.altera.com/products/boards_and_kits/all-development-kits.html. I believe you are referring to CV starter kit from Terasic. I agree that buying read make board would be better provided that it meets your target requirement.