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by advaith08·4d ago·view on hn ↗
good points. one of the reasons we picked the semiconductor industry is that its less price sensitive than others-companies are willing to pay if the performance is there. Effort is a different story though, and definitely a tradeoff to keep in mind. We're doing experiments ourselves now at university partner labs (UC Berkeley and Stanford), which helps us get moving quickly. At some point, we'll need a partner though - the equipment and testing process quickly get very expensive.
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Semiconductors are also incredibly risk averse, and requires fairly large gains to be worth the risk.

There are domains (or, mems, photonic sensing, high power) where innovation has a bit more flexibility for the early going.

that's true, we've seen examples of many promising startups that are a few years in and stuck because the industry is so risk averse. will explore the other domains you've mentioned!