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If anyone is looking for a hardware startup idea, there are a ton of "essential" chips in laptops, desktops, and servers that there are effectively only one or
by nrp 5y ago
If anyone is looking for a hardware startup idea, there are a ton of "essential" chips in laptops, desktops, and servers that there are effectively only one or two suppliers for. None of these are ones that need particularly advanced IP or process technology. After what every OEM and ODM has experienced in 2020 and 2021 (and going into 2022), we're all looking for a diversified set of chip partners. Even when back-end fabs constraints will be the same, better partners to work with would be wonderful.
- dathinab 5y ago> particularly advanced IP Wrt. to letting them being designed and produced by TSCM and similar, yes. But if you wan to do production "from scratch" it's a complete different matter, even if the chip is "simple" you still need a proper chip production method, which is never simple. There is a reason why we only have very few fabs today, even through there is a lot of demand for chips using "older" production methods (>28nm). It's often still not profitable to produce them even for companies which have all the necessary patents, know-how and even some older existing machinery. A thing the care industry was hit hard by.