How NDA'd SoCs kill China factories

How NDA'd SoCs kill China factories

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So you were dumb enough to sign up to an NDA'd chip because that was how you were told it could be done and then your factory got some technology and started producing gadgets like all these factories did:

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And so you realize your product looks like everybody else's and you decide to go one up and make your own customized device with a few more bells and whistles.

The first thing you would do is ask for support from the chip factory. But you are not going to get any because the support is strictly narrowed to the product your factory has been equipped to make. Thats because everything is NDA'd and the chip factory cannot allow their engineers to go on line and start asking for help to port LCDs and other types of added gadgetry to the chip because they would violate the NDA describing what is in the chip.

So then you think you are the factory and you got the datasheets, and you can go online and ask for support.

No fat chance at all!!

You signed the NDA and it would be illegal for you to describe the chips and pins to get help.

So in the end your factory collapses because you are unable to add bells and whistles to your product and differentiate your product from the rest of the crowd.

Looking at all the gadgets at dx.com,

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it is easy to surmise for example that some of those boxes could do with SATA ports, or sport a built in colour LCD, or have an LCD controller etc. But they can't happen because there is no information about the pins on the chip for SATA, custom LCDs and other GPIO pins, or the registers used in the kernel headers or any other information useful for extending the product because they got to get that information from the NDA holders of that information further up the chain. There is no free flow of information as your factory goes down the drain.

Signing up for SoCs with NDAs kill all future prospects for products. As far as possible, don't sign NDAs. Go sponsor chips and fabless companies that can work without need for NDAs.

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Yeah moron - those slave labor factories in China is sooo very afraid of violating some weak little NDA agreement. That's gotta be what's holding them back - LOL.

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Ezekiel

I wonder if Gortard and the rest of the "advocates" who believe the little fraud have received their "nano bot kits" yet? They'll probably be in the same package as the "see through clothes glasses" and the "under sea world" sponge tablets so popular in kids comics years back...

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