>I hear that some of the high-end  flex PCB can cost more than thousand
>bucks in the prototype stages. It will be quite costly to have several
>iterations of PCB designs.

Here's a message from a few years ago in another forum (these are bare
boards, BTW):

 > For those that impress easily the most expensive rigid flex board I
 > ever worked on went out the door at $22,000 dollars US each for 6
 > prototypes. Not for the buget minded in any sense of the word.
 > Would it surprise anyone if I told you that these were sold to Hughes
 > Aircraft Aerospace division ?

That's $132,000 for 6 pieces.

There are stories of much bigger costs from ordering *without* making
a proper prototype. 8-(

Best regards,

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