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All that money yet they still use an off the shelf Qualcomm chip? Their budget is so large they could build a custom chip with better performance for their VR h

All that money yet they still use an off the shelf Qualcomm chip? Their budget is so large they could build a custom chip with better performance for their VR headset. They also have spent enough money to fund 200 juiceros.

FirmwareBurner 3y ago
>Their budget is so large they could build a custom chip with better performance for their VR headset. No they couldn't. Unlike Apple, Meta doesn't ship enough headsets in such volumes that makes it economically viable to develop your own ARM SoC with GPU from scratch, with no guarantee that the resulting SoC would be superior to what you can already buy from QUALCOMM (there's a reason even Samsung & Google can't beat them), so it makes sense to buy COTS parts where you can and spend your money on VR R&D, polishing the UX and developing great SW instead. Think of it this way, Apple didn't start developing SoCs from scratch for the original iPhone, but it was entirely built with COTS parts (Samsung ARM SoC) and all the R&D money went into great SW & UX. Only generations later they could afford to start rolling out custom HW parts.