Hardware Development
topic on 4 shows · 8 statements across 5 episodes
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 
Sourcery 
TBPN 
20VC
8 statements about Hardware Development, every show
Mehr: Hardware takes 7 to 9 years because you must build factories
“If you want to build a hardware, you pretty much have to go build a factory, right? And that's why development timelines are like seven years, nine years,”
Ramade: Re-spinning an incorrect circuit board adds three months to hardware cycles
“Each time you're like, oh damn, the board was wrong. I need to go and re-spin it. That's like, you're adding three months to the cycle.”
Noone: Hardware development labor and software represent a $1 trillion market
“And so for us, we view it as about a trillion dollar sized market. That's both the labor and the software license costs for actually running those hardware development programs.”
Noone: Hardware design software has not been fundamentally updated since the 1980s
“Then it last was updated in the eighties. And it's still a industry fully driven by engineers with a mouse clicking on a screen.”
Jordan Noone: Zoo sees highest adoption from combined hardware-software teams
“The people who we tend to see the most adoption from are people that see software development and hardware development side by side.”
Noone: Hardware engineers historically lacked code-based CAD automation tools
“And that code allows scripting, automation, scaling, things like equations and database lookups and logic, things that sound obvious to anyone who's done software before. Of course, you'd think that software could write a loop that changes the geometry of a fe…”
Spence: Hardware development requires two years and heavy upfront debate
“It's even harder in hardware because you really don't want that many hardware programs that are not going to work. Right. Because it's a two year journey. You've got to get a lot of the details sorted out upfront and a lot of debate has to happen at that point…”