Articolo di Reuters, questa volta sulle potenzialità di uno Starlink-phone.
(sono sempre speculazioni legate all’IPO quindi eviterei di inquinare il thread dedicato a Starlink)
Starlink fuels SpaceX growth with potential phone, more internet services
With a SpaceX IPO expected this year, the company has plans for its revenue-generating Starlink business that could expand its reach into new markets, including a Starlink phone, direct-to-device internet and a space-tracking service, sources familiar with the matter said. […]
The plans include making a mobile device connected to its Starlink satellite internet constellation that could rival smartphones, according to three people familiar with the plans.
Specifics on the device’s design or when Musk plans to develop the product are unclear. Starlink in recent years has worked with T-Mobile to bring Starlink internet directly into mobile phones on that network, a different effort than SpaceX producing a phone itself. […]
“It would be a very different device than current phones,” Musk said. “Optimized purely for running max performance/watt neural nets,” referring to the brain-like computing hardware behind artificial intelligence. Replying to a user on X who shared the Reuters report, Musk said: “we are not developing a phone.”
E’ riportato anche un dato sul bilancio di SpaceX che punta a un articolo pubblicato in esclusiva da Reuters pochi giorni fa.
Exclusive: SpaceX generated about $8 billion in profit last year ahead of IPO, sources say
Starlink is a vital profit generator for SpaceX. Last year, the company generated about $8 billion in profit on $15 billion to $16 billion of revenue, two people familiar with the company’s results said, with Starlink as the main revenue driver, accounting for about 50% to 80% of the total.