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actually the cost of the CPU is mostly based off the yield percentage of the die itself.
There is a slew of math formulas that determine the price of a CPU.
Like Dolk said, and I have mentioned before, we pay for the research, not the components of the chips. I mean technically we do, but do you think that a tiny piece of silicon, gold plated pins, PCB and a heatsink top cost $300? I think not. The costs of that, are around $10. We pay for the years and years of technology refinement and thought that go into the chips.