Misty Robotics Blog – 9.6.18
If you’re a maker of semiconductors you inherently get the platform economics of a “design win” business. You create a platform (your chip), and you seek thousands of “design wins”, where other companies do all the work to sell your chip, because it’s designed into their product. A relatively low number of those designs may go to market, but odds are decent that a few of those will break through and sell millions of units of your product.
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