The gap between the cost of building a phone and its price in the shops should widen further as previously components are packed onto a single main microchip.

制造一部手机的成本和它在商店里的价格之间的差距应该会进一步扩大，因为以前元件被封装在一个主芯片上。

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There is just one problem: the cost of the components currently used comes to more than that.

只是有一个问题：当前使用的组件的成本比这个价格要高。

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That is because of the high cost of batteries, and because other components must be redesigned for electric vehicles.

这是因为电池成本较高，还因为其它组件也得专为电力车量身打造。

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We have to balance cost of shipping final products with the cost of shipping components vs labor cost s vs quality vs many other factors.

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The other 96.4 percent of that total is the cost of components produced (and the labor and overhead employed to produce those components) in Japan, Germany, South Korea, the United States, and several other countries.

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One of the major reasons behind the telecom players reluctance to increase capacity is the high cost of optical components.

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