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| electrolust:
--- Quote from: GlowingGhoul on June 30, 2017, 03:26:10 pm ---Seeing as how this has a BOM of only $200 retail, it really makes the market segmentation pricing seem absurd at this point. --- End quote --- Not at all. The BOM cost is not in the noise, but it's one of the smaller factors for a product like this (sales numbers in the thousands per year, not millions, with high NRE costs). As something of an example, I do high grade security stuff, and folks that make EAL4 and up secure elements won't even talk to you until you're in the 100k of volume and at that volume you're a one-off. They can't sell you unit quantities of chips even if they wanted to, because you can't afford the NRE. When you're doing 1M+ of volume, that's when your NRE is spread across significant units and when BOM cost starts to be of primary importance. If anything, it reflects how much of a bargain it is to buy the smaller bandwidth version of the same scope. All the same engineering had to go into the product. All the support costs are the same. |
| electrolust:
This is amazing!! I wouldn't do this myself, but just wow! |
| lukier:
--- Quote from: Keysight_DanielBogdanoff on June 30, 2017, 03:45:46 pm ---I wouldn't bank on a 3000 level scope starting at 500 MHz for a long, long time. I won't go into sales details, but for basically every line of scopes all the way up to the top, we sell a lot more of the lower bandwidth models than the higher bandwidth models. --- End quote --- That is at the point of sale I guess, but what about the BW upgrades? How many of these lower bandwidth ones end up getting a BW option? |
| electrolust:
--- Quote from: Keysight_DanielBogdanoff on June 30, 2017, 03:45:46 pm ---And, as is made clear by the mod, the whole backend of the scope is capable to 1 GHz (or higher >:D) --- End quote --- The gauntlet has been thrown! OK next level mod is to take this thing to 1.2 or 1.5GHz!! |
| electrolust:
Can you characterize the response curve? My memory might be bad, but as I recall from the literature, the sub-1GHz models have gaussian response and the 1GHz (as shipped from Keysight) has maximally flat response. Apologies if the posted traces show that fact, I'm a bit excited and haven't read through in detail! |
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