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At a dinner with a team of Airbus folks we were working with at a previous job, they talked about how difficult it was getting to source CPUs for the A320 after
by rkomorn 1y ago
At a dinner with a team of Airbus folks we were working with at a previous job, they talked about how difficult it was getting to source CPUs for the A320 after 30 years.
It's definitely a "if it ain't broke don't fix it" thing, but I ask myself a similar question: at some point whoever is producing these chips is going to stop finding it worthwhile and end production, no?
But then I also assume the people who work on these things know arguably infinitely more than I do.
- karmelapple 1y agoThey do :) And if the companies who produce these chips continue to make a healthy profit, why would they stop?
- rkomorn 1y agoThe scenario that comes to my mind is: these chips had a lot of potential customers 30 years ago, and now may be down to just one or two customers left buying too few units to make it worthwhile. Presumably, they have "guaranteed" buyers but also, if so, why would Airbus have issues sourcing CPUs, for example?
- throw0101c 1y ago> […] too few units to make it worthwhile. Not if the price of those units are really high.
- rkomorn 1y agoYeah, maybe the difficulty for the buyers is not getting price-gouged by a sole remaining supplier.
- mrweasel 1y agoBut no one is producing 286 chips anymore, that's part of the problem Boing has. The chips fail, because they are used and old. Or is someone besides Intel making them?