Hardware is the New Salt Product Innovation in the Age of AI

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English | December 19, 2025 | ASIN: B0G9BH9HYT | 84 pages | Epub | 1.49 MB
Hardware is the New Salt is a field guide for the next era of technology, where competitive advantage doesn't come from software alone, but from the unique, hard-won constraints of the physical world. In a landscape where AI models and software features are increasingly abundant, it's hardware-sensors, power budgets, thermals, materials, manufacturing realities, and real-world data-that becomes the scarce ingredient shaping what's possible. This book explores why hardware is becoming the defining source of differentiation and how teams can utilize it deliberately: to build defensible products, create proprietary data flywheels, and design experiences that feel inevitable because they're grounded in physics, not hype. Through practical frameworks and vivid examples, Hardware is the New Salt shows how to connect industrial design, electrical and mechanical engineering, ML, and product strategy into one coherent system-so what you ship is not just intelligent, but real, reliable, and scalable.