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R&D costs: went from 7,694,000,000 to 10,273,000,000 quarterly 2021 to 2022. whereas revenue went 65,118,000,000 to 69,092,000,000. Somewhat less of an increas
by AlbertCory 4y ago
R&D costs: went from 7,694,000,000 to 10,273,000,000 quarterly 2021 to 2022.
whereas revenue went 65,118,000,000 to 69,092,000,000. Somewhat less of an increase.
You'd assume R&D is mostly fully loaded costs of engineers, but I suppose someone who really knows the financials could tell us for sure.
- brookst 4y agoGoogle is getting deeper into silicon, both datacenter and device. That R&D has substantial capital costs which I think are still included in R&D top line.
- AlbertCory 4y agoI guess we could both read the part of the report where they explain it :) If it's capitalized, then it's not R&D, which is all expensed.
- bushbaba 4y agoThe silicon would be to save money compared to general purpose compute. The savings should overcome any fixed cost. Doubt it's having that great an impact to R&D cost growth.
- dekhn 4y agothat was one of the reasons for TPUs- they are far cheaper (TCO) than large numbers of GPUs if you're doing massive amounts of training.