{"id":1589,"date":"2003-06-27T16:06:31","date_gmt":"2003-06-27T23:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/06\/the-line-grows-longer\/"},"modified":"2003-06-27T16:06:31","modified_gmt":"2003-06-27T23:06:31","slug":"the-line-grows-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/27\/the-line-grows-longer\/","title":{"rendered":"The line grows longer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a title=\"Unstrung - The world wide source for analysis of the global wireless economy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unstrung.com\/document.asp?doc_id=36167\">Unstrung reports<\/a> that another WiFi chip company is bucks-up and ready to ship:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Bermai&#8217;s first round of funding, for $21 million, came in March 2002. &#8220;We sized our &#8216;A&#8217; [round] just about perfectly. We got orders just before we ran out of &#8216;A&#8217; money,&#8221; Sanguinetti says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As the line at the trough gets longer and more of the spaces are taken by companies like Atheros and Bermai with actual products and customers, we&#8217;re wondering why anybody would invest in the chip companies with no chips and no customers at this late date. <\/p>\n<p>Megachipcos Intel and Broadcom have created opportunities for quick-strike, CMOS startups by building crappy parts, but not for the slow, lax, and arrogant.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unstrung reports that another WiFi chip company is bucks-up and ready to ship: Bermai&#8217;s first round of funding, for $21 million, came in March 2002. &#8220;We sized our &#8216;A&#8217; [round] just about perfectly. We got orders just before we ran out of &#8216;A&#8217; money,&#8221; Sanguinetti says. As the line at the trough gets longer and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/27\/the-line-grows-longer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The line grows longer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-pD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}