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Probably it's an off-P&L project of a bunch of unsupervised engineers tucked in a nondescript building in Sunnyvale which is losing money per unit (without even
by flyinglizard 2y ago
Probably it's an off-P&L project of a bunch of unsupervised engineers tucked in a nondescript building in Sunnyvale which is losing money per unit (without even factoring in R&D costs) with no real way to profitability, or else they'd already DfM (Design for Manufacturing) it to death thus taking away any repairability.
- jrockway 2y agoReplacing 1 chip with a lead time of 2 years with 4 chips you can buy today and some software sounds like DfM to me.
- seanmcdirmid 2y agoProbably, but I’m guessing Shenzhen rather than Sunnyvale.
- choilive 2y agoYep, they are probably selling these pretty close to the BOM cost without any real hope to amortize the R&D unless they were planning on selling a million of these.