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by bryanlarsen 5009 days ago
The screen is by far the biggest component of the BOM in the Nexus 7. Compromising that is the only way to substantially reduce the price. To hit $99 everything will be on the table, but RAM is cheap, and so are capable ARM SOC's. It won't be Tegra 3, but it will be good enough.