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.
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.
