# hardware / manufacturing and lifecycle

- DFM/DFA review and phase-gated hardware programs with schedule, risk and trade-off tracking
- Domestic and APAC design and EMS partner management; supplier, customs and production troubleshooting; native Mandarin for supplier coordination
- JLC/LCSC turnkey release pipelines: readiness checks, BOM/CPL, order packages with SHA-256 manifests
- BOM optimization (20 percent subsystem cost cut) and contract harness manufacturing
- Fleet lifecycle: hardware versioning, IQC, provisioning and flashing, revision traceability, field serviceability
- Field reliability tracking: 72.8k-hour demonstrated MTBF on a 35-unit industrial output board
- Unit-cost ownership: 9.50 to 45 USD assembled boards at 20 to 50 units; 3.5k to 0.8k USD per-system I/O cost reduction
- Fast-turn prototyping: 24 hours from tape-out to fabricated boards
- Impedance-controlled stackups specified to the core (2116x3 resin), 1/0.5 oz and 2/1 oz copper

Up: https://matthewguo.me/p/hardware

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