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Qualcomm announce a big price rise - bad news for Valve's Steam Frame
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Even with the kind of money he has, he can't just do that. It takes stupid amount of time to actually get a chip out of a fab after the build starts (let alone after just planning starts).
Yeah, there's a reason only a handful of companies on the planet even try it. On top of the time and technology requirements, there's also a massive patent minefield to navigate. Qualcomm is something like 20 times bigger than Valve with chips as their entire business model, and even they're still not big enough. Qualcomm contracts TMSC and Samsung to use their fabs.
Edit: added a bit...
Also it's not as if chips alone went insanely up beacuse the manufacturing equipment did so as well. And if you're building fabs, you're not gonna do it in the US or Europe - for a reason. Even Apple gave in to "Designed in California".
I want you to know I sat here thinking "who the heck is Evan Apple?" for way too long.
Yeah sorry, saussage fingers. Fixed now.
oh, I know he can't, the sheer complexity of tech hardware is not reasonable to set up in any reasonable time... But it seems like something Valve would try to do anyway.
They're only a like 300 hundred people in total, to run a fab they would have to expand to a point they are no longer valve