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Yikes, this is incredibly cynical.

• scarface74 7y ago
  It’s not cynical it’s the truth. Why else do you think investors give money to startups?
  • leoh 7y ago
    It's possible that the end goal is acquisition or an aquihire-like situation. Even if that's the goal, it could be pretty cool — they may get to the point where they build a team that can execute and build chips with different design goals in mind, adding diversity of ideas to the industry. How cool is it to be part of a team that is capable of building their own chips? Your tone ("building a company"), however, suggests that something useless is occurring here, that they are just playing house as opposed to creating value. That's the part that feels like coded cynicism.
    • scarface74 7y ago
      No. I’m saying it’s naive to think that it is their investors intention of building a business that takes on the big chip makers. That seems to be thought in many of the comments. After seeing Apple design processors that are performance competitive with Intel except on the very high end and they will probably make better modem chips than Intel could by acquiring PA Semi and the remnants of Exponential Technology and seeing Amazon design custom server and embedded chips for its own use, I think we are seeing a renaissance in chip design we haven’t seen since the 80s and 90s. Microsoft and Google are also dipping their toes in custom designed chips.
      • leoh 7y ago
        That's fair. I can see why you felt that way. The headline of the article did imply that the founders were going after Intel/AMD, when in fact the likely outcome is more modest in scope.