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200mm tapeouts have briefly became more profitable than leading edge ones on the wave of panic buying. On my side, I lost a lot of firmware devs to poaching by
by baybal2 5y ago
200mm tapeouts have briefly became more profitable than leading edge ones on the wave of panic buying.
On my side, I lost a lot of firmware devs to poaching by companies migrating between microchip brands, and ready to pay just anything, to the point of me myself being tempted.
- redisman 5y agoHeck, why not? It’s a market economy and we are a commodity. Why resist your price going up?
- baybal2 5y agoIt's an ultimate irony to see that 200mm fabs in the West were closed one after another for "low profitability" just to see them missing out on this money volcano
- Ekaros 5y agoIf those fabs where still around probably profitability would be even lower and there wouldn't be so massive profits. Irony is that we haven't been paying some more, to keep slack in supply.
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoMind telling us whether you're hiring? And, mind pointing us to some contacts where your people are going?
- baybal2 5y agoWill you be ready to move to China? Working of physical products requires being there. We don't do much software only projects. We tried DHLing prototypes around before, it didn't work out. People still need tons of expensive tooling, go to other specialist companies with these prototypes, etc. Too much pingpong
- manquer 5y agoTaiwan would work too perhaps ? Maybe even South Korea/ Japan as well.