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by cebert 408 days ago
If the OEM stayed with the same chip for several years, wouldn’t the price go down over time?
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Car OEMs are modern day colonial plantation owners, they know cost structures of suppliers and schedule their price cuts. They already have an annual cost saving quota. Prices don't just go down but go down just-in-time.

It would make zero sense if I drive to a Walmart and demand they sell to me with monotonically lowering prices as function of date since registration of my reward card, but in cars they do.

Ironically, this method of managing suppliers was perfected by Wal-Mart.
LOL. That's what I was thinking too.