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TI is an enormous risk-taker and has performed huge strategic game-changing shifts over the years, just like Motorola who it used to compete directly with and w
by julianpye 14y ago
TI is an enormous risk-taker and has performed huge strategic game-changing shifts over the years, just like Motorola who it used to compete directly with and which became an entirely different company, too.
TI used to have a typical 'hire and fire' reputation, which actually is what allowed it to perform these shifts - going so far as to abandon relatively new and incredibly expensive fabs and their workforces when needed. This type of MO is not compatible with the way how China finances, plans and operates its businesses.
- hga 14y agoGood point. A very good MIT Press book on this topic (I think it's this one: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=7309 http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&... but the cover is different; I'd say its still relevant if you don't have a good background in the topic), noted as of 1980 that TI managed to be successful through 4 or so generations of semiconductor technology starting with germanium transistors (following would be silicon ones, one or more generations of ICs including the ubiquitous first widespread TTL family; since then microprocessors and now specialized types of those).