Exactly, the step for ramp-up was taken early this year, the ramp-up for producing more and more and
the standard shrink are on their way.
That is, both TI, IBM and the rest, as well as the reflective, power-frugal color display factories, plus
smaller RF filters, RF modules, more integrated analog stuff, even incrementally improved battery technologies
and a little bluetooth, all need their own ramp-ups to large scale production, as well as ramp-down for next generation.
Would have been suicidal to introduce new products last year, as well as demanding new products
for niche markets this year.
That is, my point was why would Nokia had introduced a new all-bells-and-whistles quack-CDMA handset last
year, getting color displays and large RAM is still a question of tough priority this winter.
Ilmarinen
Sorry about IBM, their hard disks innovations were pretty good, as many other things, but not good enough.
(without getting into OS2, wincrash, and the fact that Ungerboeck is so rarely remembered, the IBM man
who never published anything of no importance) |
