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I’ve considered leveraging this in electronic manufacturing. Send design off to be cheaply fabricated, wait for it to appear on aliexpress as a clone with all B
by setquk 8y ago
I’ve considered leveraging this in electronic manufacturing. Send design off to be cheaply fabricated, wait for it to appear on aliexpress as a clone with all BOM cost optimisation done free. Buy bulk lots and resell in local country. Bingo!
- moflome 8y agoI agree. Doing this now for 5G "mesh" based BTLE devices which I hope will drop dramatically in price. Working out low-cost PMIC, crystal and passive component compatibilities for US based chipsets is a bit of a regulatory issue, but the "clones" iterate so fast I expect them to have complete designs available by mid-2019 and hope to make the money on the software / data.
- setquk 8y agoInteresting. I suppose your value add could be EMC, packaging, support and infrastructure on that.
- woolvalley 8y agoThen hire another factory to clone that BOM optimized part for v2 :p
- setquk 8y agoJust wait :) If you look at the really cheap multimeters based on the DT830 design root they were originally derived from early Fluke DMMs circa 1985. Fluke hired Intersil to make the ASIC, Intersil second sourced it, the Chinese cloned it and cost optimised it, and then more Chinese guys cloned the target devices (panel meters and DMMs) and built mass production lines. Optimally they even optimised out the DIP packages as they were expensive and bonded the die straight to the PCB. Down from $500 a pop to $2.
- userbinator 8y agoThat works even better if your product has no electronics at all: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18210950 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18210950
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