Finance guys tend to be able to afford to have the right people to be sure of that on hand; they also are specifically in the business of cost-benefit analysis.

Finance guys tend to be able to afford to have the right people to be sure of that on hand; they also are specifically in the business of cost-benefit analysis. I have no insight or information this; but sometimes you can throw money at a problem to make it go away, and that's literally the best deal open to you. If custom fab solves a problem more cheaply than the 25 senior software engineers it would otherwise take, then custom fab it is.