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Chips are mostly development cost; once designed they cost little to produce and even less with economies of scale. Cutting yourself off the massive Chinese ma
by throwaway4good 4y ago
Chips are mostly development cost; once designed they cost little to produce and even less with economies of scale.
Cutting yourself off the massive Chinese market will cause more expensive tech in the west as there are fewer people to sponsor its development.
- k_sze 4y agoBut I thought the price surge of nvidia gpus in the past few years were demand-driven because of crypto mining?
- throwaway4good 4y agoYeah. What I wrote is what in general happens long term. Short term all short of things can happen: a factory burns down - dram spikes in price, covid, financial crisis kills demand firesale across the board, spike in crypto drives up gpu demand etc etc
- kube-system 4y agoChips are mostly supply limited over the past few years. Economies of scale go away or even decrease once you reach the limits of your production.