Companies are hacking their way around the chip shortage • Hacker News Board

Re: Companies are hacking their way around the chip shortage

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Post by biosonar_ » Tue, Sep 13, 2022, 5:38 AM UTC

londons_explore wrote: post #66

axiolite wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> the futures market should never determine if a factory is operating But what about washing machine futures ? Or more realistically, how much is shutting down the factory going to cost the washing machine manufacturer in terms of employee compensation, lost employees (more hiring and training), washing machine brand losses in the market, failure to deliver on existing contracts, and similar? They can't claim force m…

True... but that has to be compared with those same set of losses the car factory up the street will suffer if they don't get the chips... If there is only enough chips for one factory to run, someone has to shutdown and take those losses. And the shutdown factory should be the one with less to lose, not the one who didn't buy futures in time.

That's what you'd do in a command economy. In a market economy it's up to the company what they do; there are far more things "real people" try to maximize than just profit. You can see this as people acting irrationally, or you can see it as there're important factors your missing and/or not understanding.

Economists be like "guys, your doing it wrong - not maximising profit", economy be like "nah, your theories incomplete".

Re: Companies are hacking their way around the chip shortage

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Post by askvictor » Tue, Sep 13, 2022, 6:15 AM UTC

walrus01 wrote: post #70

NelsonMinar wrote: post #13

Starlink provides a router with their ISP package. For the last year the router comes without an ethernet port. Wireless only. They've never said why but I assume it's because of a chip shortage. (There is an add-on for ethernet you can order for a modest price.) ResMed started selling a version of their popular AirSense 10 AutoSet sleep apnea machine without a cellular modem. Normally the product uploads treatment d…

there is no shortage of 1000BaseT PHY and ethernet chips or you would see absolute chaos in the market of $50 to $150 home/small office routers and ethernet switches. The sort of all-in-one CPU/RAM/ethernet chip that's built into a small router like the starlink one already implements ethernet it just needs the PHY to do it If mikrotik and ubiquiti can still source the chips to build $50 routers, which is the case, t…

Co-incidentally, today I started looking for PHY chips for the product we're working on, and indeed, there's basically nothing available at 10/100.

Re: Companies are hacking their way around the chip shortage

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Post by Fiahil » Tue, Sep 13, 2022, 6:59 AM UTC

missedthecue wrote: post #64

Fiahil wrote: post #56

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> 800 […] That's a very small amount of money, often less than a single month's insurance premium. Jesus fucking christ, what the fuck ?! How much does health insurance cost in the US ?

Is this really the first time on the internet that you've encountered a discussion about US healthcare costs?

Healthcare cost, no, but monthly insurance cost, yes.

$800 per months plus out of pocket sums for each appointment is batshit insane.

Plus, loosing it when you loose your job is even more difficult. I think I finally understand why every Michael Bay movie is starting with a surprise medical bill. I always thought it was somewhat silly.

To give you a example, I pay 75€ per months for the entire family, and we don't have to pay anything when going to the doctor.

Re: Companies are hacking their way around the chip shortage

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Post by amitprayal » Tue, Sep 13, 2022, 12:38 PM UTC

companies using chips from washing machines looks fishy / fake to me, wont they have some kind of security so those chips cant be re flashed, very naive to think that we can de solder and re flash the chip as if its brand new.