Robert kuang seem to be asic design maneger at verisilicon. That pass breach was long ago 2011 but still this nda bugs me.
Can somebody best pg email him?
I hear ya, but NDA's are commonplace. In my business, it's very common. Nobody is given information or allowed onto the manufacturing floor that hasn't signed one. Period.
it's common business practice.
what the scope is I don't know, as we haven't seen it obviously, but I don't doubt it exists. I'd be more surprised if it didn't.
VeriSilicon Holdings Co., Ltd. is a fabless ASIC design foundry focusing on providing semiconductor IP, design services and turnkey services including manufacturing, packaging, testing, and delivery.
No wonder it's not on the list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_IP_core_vendorsnow that's worrying... tapeout of a chip, they don't even fab.
"Fabless manufacturing is the design and sale of hardware devices and semiconductor chips while outsourcing the fabrication or "fab" of the devices to a specialized manufacturer called a semiconductor foundry. Foundries are typically located in China[1] [2] [3] [4] because of the generally low cost of labor, so fabless companies can benefit from lower capital costs while concentrating their research and development resources on the end market."
none of that bothers me. I couldn't give 2 farts in a hurricane if they have it built by elves in a hollow tree.
what does piss me off is that they clearly are more concerned about guarding their profit than properly compensating their customers for their fook-ups.
I'm no fan of BA, make no mistake, I think they're bending their customers over and coring them out good, while dancing in the rain with their customer's money, which, while I totally expected it, I think absolutely sucks.
But this other shit is nothing but logistics as far as I'm concerned. Cargo can be moved in a hurry, so shipping it to point B, which is the foundry, does not concern me, as I think they can pack the boxes and get them to the dock. But do send that shit next day, BA, you've cost your customer's enough money.
