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Zoho? Like the email and calendar software? They are building a chip?
by sgammon 1y ago
Zoho? Like the email and calendar software? They are building a chip?
- duskwuff 1y agoYeah, that one. No, I don't get it either. There's no synergy whatsoever.
- baybal2 1y ago[dead]
- SanjayMehta 1y agoVembu has invested in fabless chip companies earlier. He was looking at setting up a fab with a $700 million investment. I don’t know what that would have bought them.
- TMWNN 1y agoA parking spot[1] next to a fab [1] Not reserved
- ohgr 1y agoI expect the thinking went: build chip plant, ???, profit!
- jajko 1y agoYou don't have a chip fab in your backyard? Seriously, how people can live like savages in 2025 is beyond me
- selcuka 1y agoYou don't even need a backyard. A (big) garage will do: https://www.wired.com/story/22-year-old-builds-chips-parents-garage/ https://www.wired.com/story/22-year-old-builds-chips-parents...
- vram22 1y agoHe has a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University and worked for Qualcomm as a wireless engineer. Then he started a company called AdventNet which created network management software. They had a product called ManageEngine, before starting Zoho. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sridhar_Vembu https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sridhar_Vembu >In 1996, Vembu, along with two of his brothers, founded a software development house for network equipment providers called AdventNet.[7][9] So there is some connection to chips, at least, plus his educational background could incline him to be interested in this area.
- vram22 1y agohttps://www.manageengine.com https://www.manageengine.com https://www.manageengine.com/about-us.html https://www.manageengine.com/about-us.html
- rajnathani 1y agoMore than 10 years ago, the "advertising company" Google started making chips called TPUs. So, what is your point exactly here? As an aside, there is a pretty big boom of semiconductor manufacturing in India (in the planning/commissioning stage) based on a government incentive program floated a few years ago where there's a 1:1 PLI matching scheme by the government (eg: $100M of spend will get you a $100M funding matched by the government). This has resulted in companies like Foxconn at one point deliberating [0] entering the semiconductor manufacturing space in India, besides other local high-market-cap companies like Vedanta and Reliance. [0] https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/11/tech/india-foxconn-exit-vedanta-chip-joint-venture-intl-hnk/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/11/tech/india-foxconn-exit-v...
- duskwuff 1y ago10 years ago, Google was already one of the largest companies in the world - and even then they never got into IC fabrication; they had the parts made for them by an established foundry.
- rajnathani 1y agoGood point about IC fabrication vs creating a chip's design. Anyway, creating a non cutting-edge IC fab is actually not as capital intensive as it may seem, and that there are quite a few fabricators doing >=28nm fabrication.
- undefuser 1y agoIt is important to not leave out the context that Google needed TPUs for their AI development. Now the question is what does Zoho email and office software gain from fabricating custom chips?
- boruto 1y agoThey sell machine tools. The cordless one I have is VFM. https://www.karuvitech.com/products/copy-of-cordless-drill-ka-dcd02/1176861000000029206 https://www.karuvitech.com/products/copy-of-cordless-drill-k...