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Collaboration fuels innovation: Apple's reliance on specialized third-party suppliers, such as TSMC and Bosch, enables it to focus on refining design and user e

Collaboration fuels innovation: Apple's reliance on specialized third-party suppliers, such as TSMC and Bosch, enables it to focus on refining design and user experience while leveraging the technical expertise and R&D of its partners for advanced components. Outsourcing is a strategic necessity: The complexity and cost of producing certain components, such as chips and sensors, make it impractical for Apple to develop everything in-house. By outsourcing, Apple taps into specialized knowledge while staying competitive. Suppliers are key to Apple's success: Companies like SiTime and Texas Instruments provide essential components that allow the Apple Pencil Pro to deliver high performance, showcasing the importance of Apple's global network of partners. Excuse me, this is how almost every high tech company works? Feels like an LLM wrote it, especially considering how empty it is, reiterating the same thing 3 times with different buzzwords.

RicoElectrico 1y ago
At the time, Intel believed the mobile phone processor market was too small to justify the immense R&D investment required to deliver on Apple's request. Designing chips is an incredibly costly endeavor, and Intel assumed that the volumes wouldn't be large enough to cover those costs. In hindsight, this decision would go down as one of the biggest missed opportunities in business history. Otellini later admitted that Intel had drastically miscalculated, underestimating potential demand by 100x. Admittedly this one is funny given the "Intel lifecycle" as my colleagues who are Intel alumni put it: acquire a company for a mountain of cash (much more than it'd cost to develop an SoC back in 2000s) only to fumble its potential. And the current CEO might be continuing this lunacy if rumors about AI startup acquisition are true.

RicoElectrico 1y ago

At the time, Intel believed the mobile phone processor market was too small to justify the immense R&D investment required to deliver on Apple's request. Designing chips is an incredibly costly endeavor, and Intel assumed that the volumes wouldn't be large enough to cover those costs. In hindsight, this decision would go down as one of the biggest missed opportunities in business history. Otellini later admitted that Intel had drastically miscalculated, underestimating potential demand by 100x. Admittedly this one is funny given the "Intel lifecycle" as my colleagues who are Intel alumni put it: acquire a company for a mountain of cash (much more than it'd cost to develop an SoC back in 2000s) only to fumble its potential. And the current CEO might be continuing this lunacy if rumors about AI startup acquisition are true.