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In semiconductor companies, that danger is very real. It's a common practice to license major parts of chips such as the silicon IP for peripherals or even enti

In semiconductor companies, that danger is very real. It's a common practice to license major parts of chips such as the silicon IP for peripherals or even entire processors so the teams that intimately know the system design of an entire family of chips can be very small. If the 20 people on the flight were even half the team working on one of Freescale's products, they could have just lost six months to a year. If a startup designing silicon lost that many people, it would probably be irrecoverable.

brooksbp 13y ago
> If the 20 people on the flight were even half the team working on one of Freescale's products, they could have just lost six months to a year. Replacing 20 people even at a company the size of Freescale is not just a "6-12 month setback." I would pull a much larger time frame out of my ass, especially if you were to consider the long-term value these employees had.