The demands on consumer-electronics design teams are unquestionably different from those placed on other parts of the electronics industry: Have the new product on retailers' shelves by Thanksgiving, or kiss the company good-bye. Meet the cost targets, or we will cancel the design. Re-spin the silicon? No, just pull the plug on the project. And by the way, the final version of the video-compression "standard" we chose won't be ready - so, make sure you leave us enough processing head room to adapt to it with nothing but software updates.
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