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One comment from experience Slide 21 "The mobile supply chain dominates all tech" / Flood of smartphone components - Lego for technology The s
by jimduk 11y ago
One comment from experience
Slide 21 "The mobile supply chain dominates all tech"
/ Flood of smartphone components - Lego for technology
The shiny Lego is only available for the major players.
For the current key components - GPU/CPU/Camera sensor - you can't order them/get support/get docs unless you have scale or amazing connections. If you are a hardware startup your lego is 2/3 yrs behind the big players, and behind public perception.
This makes complete sense once you look at chip fab costs/profit models and the industry structure, but is not great for disruption from smaller players.
NB this was from a European perspective of doing things officially - it's possible there might be more 'unofficial' components and support if this is done in China with strong local support
- revelation 11y agoThis has been a long tradition in the hardware industry, it's nothing to do with mobile. I guess the problem with mobile is more that you need much more expertise to properly design hardware on a mobile scale, and the scale makes every step so much harder. It's a huge barrier to entry.