Rim Semiconductor Company (fka RSMI)

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So apparently you don't think it is a legitimate question to try and understand how a company can make a chip that has specific parameters requested by the customer without an order to do so ahead of time.

I'll tell what I think is not legitimate. It is not legitimate to ask a question, get an answer, say "I'll take your word for it" and then completely ignore the answer and post fiction as though it were fact anyway.

At any rate, it simply does not work that way. A company may hint at the possibility of future orders if certain features are incorporated, but no company will will commit funds until they have seen and tested final silicon. Too much can go wrong. This company has been promising silicon every year for the last 5 years. Imagine what would have happened if a company had "placed and order" in 2001.

This industry changes very quickly. New and better products appear constantly. Even so, it still takes 6 months to a year to bring a new design to market if everything goes well. A company will not be willing to tie up capital for that long when there is no guarantee that the final product will work as designed, or that another more capable product won't come along in the mean time.

Surely you can understand this. We have discussed it numerous times.

All you can do is attack me. I guess that helping us understand the questions is not as important as disparaging the one asking the question.

I don't like being "played", Sherman.