Otellini on Passing on the iPhone Chip
Posted May 22nd, 2013 @ 09:58pm by Erik J. Barzeski
Otellini on being asked to produce the chips for the original iPhone:
The thing you have to remember is that this was before the iPhone was introduced and no one knew what the iPhone would do… At the end of the day, there was a chip that they were interested in that they wanted to pay a certain price for and not a nickel more and that price was below our forecasted cost. I couldn’t see it. It wasn’t one of these things you can make up on volume. And in hindsight, the forecasted cost was wrong and the volume was 100x what anyone thought.
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