Eniko Foxdamn. valve is at the mercy of industry players that dwarf them to such an extent they just have to deal with whatever they're being charged for access to the market?
that sounds rough. can't imagine what that's like
Lou.
Curioso 🍉 🇺🇦 (jgg)Clearly, you have no idea of how much it cost nowadays to start a chip manufacturing plant, unless you want it to produce tech from 20 years ago. Even worse, it takes a years to build one from zero.
It costs so much, the biggest players in that market are not opening more of them because they are afraid they are not going to make enough from them before the AI bubble bursts or whatever. Even at the current prices, they are afraid of losing money.
Valve doesn't have nearly enough money or patents to make one.