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How do you decide whether to manufacture your own semiconductors or spend your efforts in perfecting the designs and then outsourcing the actual fabrication to companies that specialize in that activity? How do you determine and then develop your areas of expertise? Investors prefer outsourcing because it lowers the barriers of entry into a particular market niche and improves return on assets. Engineers want control over production processes and often maintain a healthy skepticism for anything 'not invented here'. Where does your company draw that line? How do you decide what to build yourself and what to outsource? Who makes that decision? Are the issues technical? Financial? Political?
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