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I get what you mean but selling 1000 units is hardly a game changer :p

• Fuxy 13y ago
  If you can't even get your foot in the door there's no way you're going to get in. That's why most chips are priced out of reach of small companies. Even if they have something revolutionary they may never get the chance to get started without a huge risk.
• ChuckMcM 13y ago
  You both correct and very very wrong at the same time. What history has shown in the technology world is that the person making "1000 units" is changing the game, just the game doesn't know it yet. The folks who embrace selling in small quantities to the individual developers see a huge diversity in designs that are built with their tech, that trains up the tech provider on the strong and weak points of the technology and often helps them produce easier to implement solutions. The diversity of designs trains the consumers on possibilities which they may not be considering. When they connect, as they did with putting a microprocessor into a "home" computer, the results can be stunning. So you don't sell 1000 units because you think this guy is going change the world, you sell them in 1000 unit quantities to a bunch of guys and gals because one of them may change the world in a way you haven't foreseen, and if they do, you will benefit hugely from being the tech they used.