A lot of companies buy sample quantities from Arrow and Digikey and plenty of other distributors. Even production level quantities for smaller projects.
In fact, they're sometimes the official distributors of certain parts and there's no other channel, but you knew that, right?
It's comparable pricing, as the Aquantia pricing was for 1pcs as well. It might not be really viable for any sensible implementation, but it's an indication of price, which is what we were discussing, no? Or now you changed your mind? Got to love all the people changing the goal posts here in every single discussion when they're not winning their twisted argument.
What link to what Gigabyte board? I don't see you linking to anything from Gigabyte. A Congatech board diagram that has optional 10Gbps support over some PCIe lanes is all I see, as well as a link to Microsemi. Maybe go back and check your posts? Or maybe you're the one trolling...
Where is your congatech board diagram link? No one is changing the goalpost but you.
I said I found it last night not linked it, you don't link everything you stumble across, it wasn't what I was looking for... there were a lot of rome block diagrams to wade through despite having searched for naples.
And I said prototype stage which is small volumes 100s not 1000s For some small niche products that could be production in which case the higher prices would work fine... as the component manufacturers aren't interested in such small quantities.
And fine, let's go back to the start.
They have the IP they just need the PHY, and you start getting an aquantia boner.
There are other vendors, no just aquantia for me bro. They are the only sensible solution.
But fine.
The epyc board I stumbled upon last night using a broadcom chip...found another using a full mellanox x4
I didn't bring it up because I have yet to find anyone using a phy, only whole chip solutions or SFP+ which doesn't require the phy.
I find the lack of phy only solutions intriguing and I really don't give a rats ass about your love for aquantia or how some vendors don't have enough volume to go direct to manufacturers.
Did you know that most companies don't buy servers direct either? Who cares.
Connect x4 for reference.
Best I can tell, AMD has the IP to do networking but because everything is over fabric and not preallocated no one has opted to use the AMD MAC and just use their own full chip solutions.
So the goalpost that got moved was, AMD doesn't have to use an Intel chip to do 10gbit, they have their own IP. You can make a thread to argue about mouser if you can find any other trolls to play with.