And that's just the fancy stuff. Even if silicon is rather cheap, keeping stock overhead pretty low, you've got buildings to pay for, labor, retirement packages, transportation costs, fuel costs, electric bill, workman's comp, 401k matches, advertising, engineering costs etc etc etc, so that 5mmx8mm chunk of silicon went from kinda cheap to rediculously expensive per tray just to manufacture. And that's before all the wheeling and dealing over bulk buyers such as Dell or HP undercutting profit margins, just to make the sale, so that loss gets piled onto the average consumer to balance out profits.