There was once an IC company which hit the richest seam of inventiveness ever seen before, or since, in the semiconductor industry.
In short order it either invented or introduced the first SRAM, DRAM, Microprocessor, EPROM and Flash memory.
Then by a lucky chance, which it ruthlessly exploited in the law-courts, it gained a legal lock on what was to become biggest market for ICs for the following quarter of a century.
But the IC company never invented another new product category and, when it tried to get into new ones, like programmable logic and wireless processing, it failed ignominiously.
MORAL: Too much security can be a negative.
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