Everything the AI touches turns to shit.
What if Gabe would sell a boat and build his own RAM fabrication facilities? 🤔
You severely underestimate how many thousands of boats he will have to sell
He actually owns the boat building company as well, so he can sell as many boats as he wants!
I don’t think boat building is a profitable endeavour these days. If I had to guess, I would assume most companies are losing money on that.
Well, they aren’t boats, they’re yachts. Multi million dollar yachts that are custom made. If they’re busy, they’re making money, they aren’t building them at a loss.
Boat in this case means half-a-billion dollar super yacht.
So he would only need to sell 20 to 40 of the most expensive yacht he owns for a fab. Gabes yacht fleet is estimated from a quick search to be 6 yachts totalling 1 billion, which is 1/15th of the most quoted lower price for a new fab.
Edit: to be fair you could use ram made with DUV machines at 1 to 5 billion, which at the lower end would be all of Gabes boats. Likely this would yield 4 to 8 GB DIMMs.
And that’s only a fab itself, as in the equipment. The building cost, operational cost, insane amount of expertise, and if you’re doing the designs yourself, you can easily double that
Gaben should’ve owned a chip fab or two instead of that mega yacht /j
Why not a chip fab ship?
The chipship
Chipship shipping chips.
…the steamship
Or a steamboat
And the chimneys emit the same deliciously warm metalo-plastic ozone smell of the Steam Deck vents
Well, it’s more time to fix bugs and revise the hardware to cut costs or improve functionality. I mean, few engineers are going to say no to more time to fix their project. Maybe do a 2018 release and bump up some of the specs.
One possibility is to release a small run of the current hardware at a higher price that accounts for the increased hardware component costs as a “limited prerelease”. That has the downside that it won’t be specifically targeted by game developers, which is one perk of a console-like hardware release. Valve should also make it clear that there’s going to be a full release later that may have updated specs and will have a lower price. That gets some feedback from people and lets users who really want a living room PC now and don’t care about the price or whether developers are specifically targeting it get one. I don’t think that it’ll do very well given that it’d lack economy of scale and the high price, and having another platform will add to Valve’s cost of maintenance, but…shrugs it might be considered worthwhile.
At this point, the hardware is almost certainly locked in. They were originally expecting to ship these things by now; supply issues are the primary reason they aren’t in gamers’ hot little hands already.
The software, on the other hand, is probably getting some extra polish with this extra time.
But also:
The longer the Hormuz conflict goes on, the more oil and gas prices go up. The more shipping costs go up.
The more everything costs go up, if ‘everything’ is classed as ‘basically anything you might regularly purchase’.
So… they’re now in quite a bind, because their possible purchasers, their target demo, are actively and rapidly becoming poorer, as time goes on.
Maybe do a 2018 release
Unfortunately they only have a forwards time machine, just to make sure nobody becomes their own grandfather
Ah, thanks, 2028.
… its too late, we already put the gnome in the rocket.
