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interesting perspective. Care to elaborate a bit more? Where you in the design department? Why did they put up chinese walls? Was it to enable the foundry to ha
by michaeljx 2y ago
interesting perspective. Care to elaborate a bit more? Where you in the design department? Why did they put up chinese walls? Was it to enable the foundry to have other customers other than Intel designs? Why did you have similar type of equipment? Were you also manufacturing chipsets? If so, why didn't they expand your division to become a foundry?
- scrlk 2y agoThere's a good video from Asianometry (Lessons from Intel's First Foundry): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y9LWYmVQu0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y9LWYmVQu0 If you're an Intel foundry customer, you don't want your design or IP leaking across to Intel's product team, who might be a competitor.
- petra 2y agoBut the IP is already "compiled", or if you want to isolate even further, separate just the mask making process. What could be learned from masks?
- B1FF_PSUVM 2y ago> What could be learned from masks That's like asking what could you learn from building plans ...
- thetopher 2y agoSounds like they were following some advice from “The Innovator’s Dilemma” by separating the business groups.
- nradov 2y agoThis wasn't something with the potential to become a disruptive innovation, as described in that book. Foundries are an established business model.
- georgeburdell 2y agoI was in a fab module. The firewall part makes sense to not cross pollinate IP internally vs. externally, but it was taken to the extreme and management moved zero internal employees over to external so it was Intel’s tools and recipes but not the talent who knows all the tribal stuff.
- ethbr1 2y ago> but not the talent who knows all the tribal stuff Tribal knowledge doesn't appear on management org charts or in human resource titles.