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Anyone know how much they cost?

A friend emailed them for small quantity pricing a while ago.

"Thank you for contacting us. Our 16 pin package is the newest offering in our Neuro-Bit line of memristor products. Single packages are $240.00 USD each. We are offering a 5% academic discount on all of your purchases. The 16 pin dip will be available for shipping late-May and we are taking pre-orders now."

Help me out here- is that a red flag?

Eh, depends on where you're coming from. These clearly aren't "production grade." Maybe not even "academically curious grade." Until you can at least get budgetary pricing without sending someone an email, it probably isn't even worth investigating unless you're just intensely curious.

Never mind that $240 for 8 fragile, difficult-to-work-with memristors is definitely not cheap.

While I agree that they're not production grade, $240 is well within the budget of, say, a EE research lab that wants to experiment with memristor-based circuit topologies and has the equipment+expertise to handle them properly.

Points well taken, but if they're the only people selling anything like these, they can set whatever price they like. Higher prices also restrict their support efforts to serious people who know how things work.

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