Ex-Epox employee spills the beans

jmke · 25th May 2007, 13:25

Some five and a half years ago I moved from a scientific role in a polymer company to take on the challenges associated with working for a hardware manufacturer. I was a PC enthusiast with a great deal of excitement and drive for the technical edge of hardware with an ambition to make my hobby my job. Times were good in the whole of the hardware industry and everyone was making money – companies existed even just for the sake of existence. My eyes were wide open and the whole thing was so different to what people actually think drives this industry, you don’t realise just what goes on from say a chipset being released from a vendor to a manufacturer to the product development to the product sampling in BETA to the first production run and hasty air shipments of product from the factory to your local branch offices warehouse to it being sold to the distributor and then to the retailer and eventually ending up in the hands of the excited end user. A lot of effort goes in, in years gone by this effort was effort-less given that margins could be as high as 75% or even 100% and companies were able to put copious amounts of people in teams of development for any given product.

http://www.aoaforums.com/frontpage/content/view/869/2/

jmke · 25th May 2007, 13:25

Thanks Wolf for the heads-up

25th May 2007, 14:57

that is a good read

Is it still true that there are only 2 manufacturers of motherboards?

Sidney · 25th May 2007, 15:48

The same story applies to DRAM, Vcard, LCD display ..... etc. It is called prviate label manufacturing. With such a short life cycle, PC business is difficult to sustain continues profit.

geoffrey · 25th May 2007, 19:37

What happened to Techcon?

25th May 2007, 13:25	#1
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,021	Ex-Epox employee spills the beans Some five and a half years ago I moved from a scientific role in a polymer company to take on the challenges associated with working for a hardware manufacturer. I was a PC enthusiast with a great deal of excitement and drive for the technical edge of hardware with an ambition to make my hobby my job. Times were good in the whole of the hardware industry and everyone was making money – companies existed even just for the sake of existence. My eyes were wide open and the whole thing was so different to what people actually think drives this industry, you don’t realise just what goes on from say a chipset being released from a vendor to a manufacturer to the product development to the product sampling in BETA to the first production run and hasty air shipments of product from the factory to your local branch offices warehouse to it being sold to the distributor and then to the retailer and eventually ending up in the hands of the excited end user. A lot of effort goes in, in years gone by this effort was effort-less given that margins could be as high as 75% or even 100% and companies were able to put copious amounts of people in teams of development for any given product. http://www.aoaforums.com/frontpage/content/view/869/2/ __________________

25th May 2007, 13:25	#2
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,021	Thanks Wolf for the heads-up __________________

25th May 2007, 14:57	#3
Rutar Posts: n/a	that is a good read Is it still true that there are only 2 manufacturers of motherboards? Last edited by Rutar : 25th May 2007 at 15:12.

25th May 2007, 15:48	#4
Sidney Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 15,738	The same story applies to DRAM, Vcard, LCD display ..... etc. It is called prviate label manufacturing. With such a short life cycle, PC business is difficult to sustain continues profit. __________________ lazyman Opteron 165 (2) @2.85 1.42 vcore AMD Stock HSF + Chill Vent II

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