From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 13 18:07:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA00158 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 13 May 1997 18:07:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA00152 for ; Tue, 13 May 1997 18:06:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id KAA19349; Wed, 14 May 1997 10:35:06 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199705140105.KAA19349@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: if_de.c ???? In-Reply-To: <199705140050.RAA00819@rah.star-gate.com> from Amancio Hasty at "May 13, 97 05:50:08 pm" To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty) Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 10:35:05 +0930 (CST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, dennis@etinc.com, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Amancio Hasty stands accused of saying: > > > > It costs the same for SMC to buy Taiwanese labor as any other company. > > There is no global "sell Taiwanese labor to anyone but SMC" conspiracy. > > > > Why can't they sell boards for $35 and make the same profit as the > > clone vendors selling boards for $35? > > Within reasonable labor costs (like typically paid in Silicon Valley) it > is very hard to beat production costs for cards like ethernet cards. > One of my buddies who works at company XYZ did a global survey attempting > to reduce the cost of manufacturing his ethernet cards and came out empty. > His company manufacturers thousands of cards (exact quantity left out > on purpose). It's worth pointing out that with automated manufacturing gear, actual "labour" costs for assembling something high-volume like an ethernet card are right down in the noise anyway. > Amancio -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[