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You're not wrong. We have custom boards inside to handle the AI compute and power, but we mostly do assembly. If a software startup assembles a bunch of open s
by StephenSmith 3y ago
You're not wrong. We have custom boards inside to handle the AI compute and power, but we mostly do assembly.
If a software startup assembles a bunch of open source hardware together and packages it as a product, would you say they don't "make" software?
- intelVISA 3y agoIs assembly manufacture? Is glueing together FOSS libs coding? Probably not but I'm No True Hacker.
- brk 3y agoIf a software startup assembles a bunch of open source hardware together and packages it as a product, would you say they don't "make" software? No, I'd say they are more of a software company than a hardware company though. All software runs on some kind of hardware, but these days it is pretty rare for that hardware to be very unique or custom. I was mostly just curious what custom hardware you had, since that was the topic at hand. My curiosity comes from working in the surveillance AI space for the last ~15 years, and having done a number of custom (as in we made the whole thing) cameras with AI, but now there is a trend more towards using a lightly OEM'd camera with custom firmware in many cases. Considering the availability of cameras with advanced SoCs capable of doing edge inference, I wanted to ask more about your hardware and your design choices in this market, but I think I'll just bow out. Good luck with your startup!
- whywhywouldyou 3y agoThis is a bit like saying "I made you a birthday cake", when what you did is bought a cake and bought some candles, and stuck the candles in the cake. It's of course semantics, but I imagine people would look at you funny if you said you "made" them a cake when you clearly bought them one.