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Which "new NXP dual-core $2 chip" are you referring to? I skimmed through the NXP micro-controller website but could not find anything close to this.

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http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1324539

Looking around, the cheapest I found was $2.62, if you buy a reel of 3000 of them [1]. It's definitely a nice price, but saying something costs two bucks implies maybe up to two and a quarter each, not when it's closer to three.

[1] http://www.findchips.com/search/lpc54101j256uk49

It says $2 @ 10K. No one is pricing for hobbyists buying in 10s.

The LPC54100 series will be available... in the first quarter of 2015, with pricing starting at USD $1.99 in 10K quantities.

If you came from the future to inform us that NXP lied about their chips costing $1.99 in 10K quantities in 2015, then your beef is with the NXP marketing department, not minthd.

minthd is just relaying a number he read in a news article, which in turn relayed it from a NXP press release.

I completely missed that in my reading over the article, which was why I ended up searching for and linking to an aggregator that shows retail pricing.

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