Re: F.O.R.D
F'd Over Rebuilt Dodge
9 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Jan 2023
We had one at a semiconductor company I worked for in the early 2000s. The email went around the world. One snarky guy in Ireland commented that it was "Mostly the stupid Americans replying". Well that wasn't remotely true, but in the end that guy ended up getting fired and I believe he ended up getting death threats over it. Just because in their infinite wisdom, the admins created an open mail list that went to everyone and it was just called "fab." Hours of company time was wasted because of one poorly named mail list.
It's been a pretty constant theme in the semi conductor industry to capitalize on shortages about a year after the market's shifted due to lack of supply. Look at the Micron Xbox fiasco. Micron signed a huge deal with Microsoft to supply DDR chips, but only told their fabs to produce Rambus chips in hopes of capitalizing on some non existent market. In the interim, they failed to deliver on the Xbox contract because some genius in marketing didn't think we needed to actually make the chips they were trying to sell.