Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!auspex!guy From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Mass produced custom chips Message-ID: <7426@auspex.auspex.com> Date: 25 Apr 91 23:21:15 GMT References: <2548@spim.mips.COM> <4001@inews.intel.com> Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara Lines: 13 >>It's quite sobering to see how many there once were >>compared to how many survive today. Imagine what it would >>take to start up a new one nowadays. > >Ca. 1926 there were over 350 auto manufacturing companies in >the USA alone. Now there are 3. (If you count Saturn as 4, >you aren't paying attention.) There are, however, some start-ups in the automotive industry; the ones I know about, however, are all building supercars. (If you count Acura, Lexus, or Infiniti as startups, you aren't paying attention. :-)) How many will survive, I dunno. There may be an analogy to be drawn here; cf. Robert Colwell's previous employer....