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by baybal2
2170 days ago
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> Apple have been really smart in the last decade in buying up really good chip development teams and that is experience that is really hard to find. They can outsource silicon development. Should not be a problem with their money. In comparison to dotcom development teams, semi engineering teams are super cheap. In Taiwan, a good microelectronics PhD starting salary is USD $50k-60k... |
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Experienced teams who have designed high performance microarchitectures aren't common, because there just isn't that much of that work done.
And when you're eventually going to spend $$$$ on the entire process, even a 1% optimization on the front end (or more importantly, a reduction of failure risk from experience!) is invaluable.