Daring FireballSep 22, 2023
★ Craptacular Is More Like It
https://daringfireball.net/2023/09/craptacular_is_more_like_it
Craptacular Is More Like It

The Wall Street Journal informs us that Apple silicon was easy, but cellular modems are uniquely difficult.

Daring Fireball
Show threadTom RossSep 22, 2023
@daringfireball Spectacular take-down! Unless I’m mistaken, the Munich chip group was originally part of German industrial tanker Siemens—so the root of the problem might be a culture clash.
Show threadSören
@tomrossberlin @daringfireball Intel bought it from Infineon, and Infineon is a spin-off of Siemens’s semiconductor group, but I don’t know if they made cellular modems back in 1999 before the spin-off
Sep 24, 2023 at 6:47amWeb
Show threadTom RossSep 24, 2023
@chucker Siemens sold a few hundred million feature phones back in the day, so I think that would be the case. Either way, I imagine a German engineering culture still pervades that group, so that was my observation here.