Comment by raverbashing

Nah

$100/$150 would be the "shelf price" of the Apple chips if they were in a box for sale like an Intel/AMD one

I believe you that the cost of the delivered (roll of) plastic chips is 50% bigger in the US. Probably less but it might be (also need to include the logistic cost to send it back to assembly on iPhone, etc)

Apple (pre-)pays for stuff and probably doesn't have any orders where Qty is under 7 digits with these big vendors.