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Re:Have any Y Combinator startups outsourced coding to China... by hassy on Friday December 28, 2007 @09:56AM (#93196)
Presumably, a YCombinator start-up is one where writing good code is the core competency, and a major competitive advantage.

You don't outsource your core competency.

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Re:Have any Y Combinator startups outsourced coding to China... by cmars232 on Friday December 28, 2007 @12:21PM (#93233)
Unless you're the semiconductor industry.
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Re:Have any Y Combinator startups outsourced coding to China... by socmoth on Friday December 28, 2007 @04:54PM (#93321)
what do you mean?

making semiconductors is a ton of math, theory, and layout work. are you talking about actually using masks to do the doping?

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Re:Have any Y Combinator startups outsourced coding to China... by majimojo on Friday December 28, 2007 @05:45PM (#93331)
he probably means outsourcing your design/foundry work to taiwan, then manufacturing the chips in china. management you keep over here. typical of a company like Marvell (not the comic company you nerds! :D)

also because semiconductor "startups" have higher capital costs than your typical software company.

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