I looked on Alibaba and Shenzhen suppliers have the HS9-RTX-2010-RH for sale at 10 cents a chip, able to supply up to 100,000 chips per month.

How do they do this? They're lying. Various Alibaba vendors list literally every part number they can find as something they are selling. If someone wants it, then they see if they can actually get it.

In any case, the real price for the RX2010 was between $1000 and $10,000 according to this thread I found from 1999: http://www.strangegizmo.com/forth/MISC/msg01281.html

Of course they are. The last place I'd go for reputable semiconductor suppliers is Alibaba. The LAST.

it's quite strange that there is not backlash against those manufacturers that don't make their parts or their datasheet available. They are just a pain in the butt and they drive our buying power down.