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> The company says it researches, designs, develops and manufactures everything except its chipsets in-house. So, the plastic bits?
by ddtaylor 1y ago
> The company says it researches, designs, develops and manufactures everything except its chipsets in-house.
So, the plastic bits?
- hdgvhicv 1y agoPresumably the software, the boards, connectors, antenna design, etc.
- tliltocatl 1y ago> connectors, antenna design And also passives like SMD resistors. They are also refining copper and iron from raw ore. /s
- thfuran 1y agoThey actually make their own iron in the heart of a dying star.
- R_D_Olivaw 1y agoThey actually manufacture a synthetic star from which they gather their elements.
- ehnto 1y agoThat is an excellent scifi plot point, I would read that book.
- seizethecheese 1y agoAs a hardware founder, low quality plastic is not rocket science. On trips to China I’ve heard similar things about other companies, specifically that Foxconn makes everything it uses, including things like coolant or plastic for prototype production.
- permo-w 1y agoI don't think they were saying the plastic bits are rocket science, proverbally or not
- MomsAVoxell 1y agoDoes anyone know what their chips are doing? Do you, really? Until we have desk side silicon fabrication/placement, with accompanying tunnelling microscope features, we simply cannot trust our silicon in any way other than through utterly peaceful means, which is to say, through systems of human trustworthiness. Technology never allows us humans to advance sufficiently well to do without it .. unless it is evenly distributed. Right now we are all at the mercy of the masters of silicon. This is no joke!
- BobbyTables2 1y agoEven with desk-side silicon fabrication, one would have to hope the hardware/software with the design tools wasn’t already backdoor-ed…
- Meneth 1y agoReflections on trusting trust...
- matheusmoreira 1y agoAbsolutely. We'll never be 100% free until we can fabricate computers at home, just like we can write our own software at home.
- ungreased0675 1y agoYou can measure input and output with commodity equipment. That will give a good, but admittedly incomplete picture of what the chips are doing.